Robbie Fulks

Robbie Fulks counsels ‘Couples in Trouble’

After a critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful stint with Geffen, alt-country artist Robbie Fulks is out on his own. Through a distribution deal with Bloodshot Records, Fulks’ fourth album, “Couples in Trouble,” is out Aug. 21 on his own Boondoggle imprint. And this winter, Bloodshot will release “13 Hillbilly Giants,”

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Robbie Fulk’s on the verge of something big

Geffen Records has never been a bastion for the steel guitar, bouzouki, banjo or upright bass. But that may change with its recent signing of alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks. The quirky, Chicago-based singer-songwriter’s 1996 debut album, “Country Love Songs,” produced by Steve Albini and the Skeletons’ Lou Whitney, made several

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