“It’s time to make a change,” Robbie Fulks declares at the start of Now Then, his second album on Nashville’s Compass Records. This statement is familiar to anyone who follows this critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter’s career. Since emerging in the 1990s as a pioneer of today’s Americana movement, Fulks has consistently explored different sounds, genres, and themes across 16 albums, performing on stages from the Grand Ole Opry and Late Night with Conan O’Brien to the Hollywood Bowl and Jimmy Kimmel Live with Steve Martin, Alison Brown, and Tim O’Brien.
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Robbie and Redd are a hell of a pair, trading licks on a made-up-on-the-spot list of country standards, deep cuts, and some of each of their songs. It was basically like getting to sit with them on their porch if their porch was a basement bar.
The sound was great and the playing was exceptional. It is clear that they have spent a lot of time together, and truly enjoy it.
If you get a chance to see Robbie with Redd, do it. But don't expect to hear more than a handful of Robbie's tunes.