Robbie Fulks (Bio) was born in 1963 in Pennsylvania and spent his boyhood there and in Virginia and North Carolina. He was educated at Columbia College in New York and moved to Chicago in 1983, where he has lived since. From 1984 to 1996 he taught guitar and ensemble performance at the Old Town School of Folk Music, while performing and recording with a variety of musically disparate local bands – folk, bluegrass, progressive rock, New Wave, roots rock, and western swing. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the Special Consensus Bluegrass Band. His theatrical work includes Harry Chapin’s “Cottonpatch Gospel” and “Woody Guthrie’s American Song.” He was twice judge at the National Flatpick Guitar competition in Winfield, Kansas. From 1994 to 1998 he was a staff songwriter for Affiliated Publishers, Inc. in Nashville.
Robbie’s records include two for the Chicago country-punk independent Bloodshot (“Country Love Songs (Album),” 1996; “South Mouth (Album),” 1997), one for Geffen (“Let’s Kill Saturday Night,” 1998), a retrospective released by Bloodshot (“The Very Best of Robbie Fulks,” 1999), and two for his own Boondoggle imprint (“13 Hillbilly Giants (Album),” 2000 – also released by Bloodshot in autumn 2001 – and “Couples In Trouble (Album),” 2001). He has been the subject of feature articles or reviews in Spin, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Esquire, Details, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Billboard, the Journal of Country Music, GQ, Country Music, Reason, and other publications. His television appearances include Austin City Limits (PBS), Western Beat (CMT) and Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC). Radio appearances include WSM’s Grand Ole Opry; and Fresh Air, World Café, What Do You Know?,Acoustic Café, and Mountain Stage, all on NPR. He has scored one short film called Jell-oh Lady. He has three sons, Nicolas, Preston, and Tennessee, and one wife, Donna.
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