Country Love Songs


Country Love Songs is the debut album by the Americancountry and alternative country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, released in 1996.

Reception

Writing for AllMusic, Jack Leaver referred to Fulks as "cleverly twisted, deliciously irreverent, and one of the best of the new country singer/songwriters" and wrote of the album: "Musically, Country Love Songs supplies plenty of hardcore, bottle-tippin', honky tonk country, with a '50s production that sounds like it's supposed to be there. Fulks writes and sings country music that bears little or no resemblance to what dominates the airwaves; rather, his material harks back to an era when humor and dark subject matter shared the same page of a writer's composition book." In a story for No Depression prior to the release of the album, Kevin Roe wrote: "Country Love Songs touches all of the right traditional country bases in showcasing Fulks’ knack for memorable melodies and gleefully left-of-center lyrics."

Track listing

All song by Robbie Fulks unless otherwise noted.
  1. "Every Kind of Music But Country" – 2:18
  2. "Rock Bottom, Pop. 1" – 2:38
  3. "The Buck Starts Here" – 3:42
  4. " Nickels and Dimes" – 3:05
  5. "Barely Human" – 3:45
  6. "I'd Be Lonesome" – 2:44
  7. "She Took a Lot of Pills " – 2:41
  8. "We'll Burn Together" – 2:50
  9. "Let's Live Together" – 2:59
  10. "The Scrapple Song" – 2:42
  11. "Pete Way's Trousers" – 2:34
  12. "Tears Only Run One Way" – 2:49
  13. "Papa Was a Steel-Headed Man" – 3:27

Personnel

  • Robbie Fulks – vocals, guitar
  • Keith Baumann – lap steel guitar
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel
  • Casey Driessen – fiddle
  • Lou Whitney – bass
  • Darren Wilcox – bass
  • Brett Simons – bass
  • Bobby Lloyd Hicks – drums
  • Ora Jones – vocals
  • Steve Rosen – fiddle, background vocals
  • The Skeletons – background vocals
  • Joe Terry – keyboards, piano
  • D. Clinton Thompson – guitar
Production
  • Greg Duffin – engineer
  • Steve Albini – engineer
  • John Golden – mastering
  • Markus Greiner – design
  • Elaine Moore – photography