The Deep End

Susanna Hoffs

Erschienen am 07.04.23 bei Baroque Folk Records
Künstler: Susanna Hoffs
Genre: Alternativ und Indie

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Refusing to be pigeon-holed sounds like a noble artistic strategy, but it can make for a musical career that's everywhere and nowhere. Notorious as the alt-country insurgent who hated Nashville's country music machine so much that he wrote a song about it with an F-bomb in the title, Robbie Fulks has tried on several musical personas including rocker, humorist and curmudgeon with varying degrees of success. Age and experience have now turned Fulks toward another obvious influence—bluegrass, an artform where the chops are so uniformly impeccable that lesser talents quickly realize they have no place to hide. Bluegrass bands are collections of soloists who, when successful, can still play nice with others; aware of this tradition, Fulks stacks the deck here with genre's royalty like Sam Bush (mandolin), Tim O'Brien (mandolin), John Cowan (vocals), Jerry Douglas (dobro) and Compass records co-owner Alison Brown (banjo). In this imposing company, Fulks manages to hold his own, partly because these are his songs. He's also a reedy but impassioned vocalist and most of all, recognizes what he can and cannot sing. In "Lonely Ain't Hardly Alive," Fulks goes high and strident in a duet with tenor Randy Kohrs in convincing fashion. As his tribute to the first generation of players like Sam Bush that he heard as a child, "Longhair Bluegrass" explains Fulks' history with a music that "… spoke to me strong, and it still speaks to me" before airing his hopes: "And you know Monroe is still the king/ But now his church has a new wing/ Where an outcast like me can feel at home." In "Silverlake Reel" the players get in a swift groove and stretch out. "Nashville Blues" features Fulks and the great Tim O'Brien (Hot Rize) in a call and response vocal duet. The fast paced "Let the Old Dog In," the strongest tune on the record, is a breakdown with Douglas' dobro and the fiddle of Shad Cobb leading the way. A true believer in this difficult musical form, Robbie Fulks has done himself proud with compelling songs, credible singing and the spirit necessary to make it all feel genuine. © Robert Baird/Qobuz

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