Robbie Fulks, Georgia Hard - 57m 24s

Tracks & Durations

1. Where There's A Road	3:54
2. It's Always Raining Somewhere	3:17
3. Leave It To A Loser	3:28
4. Georgia Hard	4:14
5. I'm Gonna Take You Home	3:01
6. Coldwater, Tennessee	5:13
7. All You Can Cheat	2:50
8. Countrier Than Thou	3:25
9. If They Could Only See Me Now	4:26
10. I Never Did Like Planes	3:29
11. Each Night I Try	3:10
12. Doin' Right (For All The Wrong Reasons)	4:24
13. You Don't Want What I Have	5:43
14. Right On Redd	3:30
15. Goodbye, Cruel Girl	3:10

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Review

Few country songwriters are both smarter and funnier than Robbie Fulks, though his humor has saddled him with a reputation as a purveyor of smart-aleck novelty fare. Except for the hillbilly hokum of "I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me)," he plays it comparatively straight on Georgia Hard, confirming that he's a consummate country craftsman in the process. Amid the generous selection of 15 songs, highlights range from the countrypolitan, string-laden "Leave It to a Loser," on which Fulks channels the soulful sophistication of the late Charlie Rich, to the dance-floor buoyancy of "Each Night I Cry," which sounds closer to Rodney Crowell. A pair of murder ballads, "Coldwater, Tennessee" and "If They Could Only See Me Now," show his mastery of the taut, dark narrative, while fans of his sardonic streak will love "Countrier Than Thou." The musicianship is first-rate throughout, with the instrumental "Right on Redd" showcasing the interplay of guitarist Redd Volkaert with steel guitar legend Lloyd Green. If Nashville decides to return to songs of cheatin', drinkin', and killin', this is an album full of hits just waiting to happen. --Don McLeeseWhen country music was first recorded, around the dawn of the previous century, it was rude, funny and soulful. It was political, too, but not in the chest-thumping, far-right, car-commercial-scoring style of the 2000s. Robbie Fulks' Georgia Hard takes us back to those forgotten values, and reintroduces us to the literacy and warped humor of songwriters like Shel Silverstein, Bob McDill and Roger Miller who could say things like "My uncle used to love me, but she died," and mean it. While most current country music is calculated to form an inoffensive backdrop to the suburban shopping experience, Robbie Fulks writes songs that make you think and feel and quite often laugh out loud. Now, after several years out of the spotlight, he's back with a new album of new songs for a new label. Titled Georgia Hard, it's aimed at country fans who wondered where their music went.

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