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Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
New album Wild! Wild! Wild!, a collaboration with rock-and-roll royalty Linda Gail Lewis, is coming August 10th, 2018.
The best duo of our time. Jerry Lee Lewis
Wild! Wild! Wild!, the new collaboration between Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and rock-and-roll royalty Linda Gail Lewis, gleefully lives up to its title. Its Americana music thats as butt-shakin as Beale Street, deep-rooted as the Grand Ole Opry, and hip as a trip to The Strip. Subversive as it is reverential, the album jumps the genre tracks of nitty-gritty rock-and-roll, country-and-western, rockabilly, jump swing, and gospel, landing in a strange slice of spacetimecall it 1954when all these were One (and Linda was 7).
Robbie Fulks, the records producer, is one of the most observant and wry songwriters of the past two decades (Rolling Stone). Ground-zero Louisiana-born rocker Linda Gail Lewis is the younger sister and frequent performing partner of Jerry Lee Lewis, whose piano innovations she carries forward. Her present-at-the-creation cred buoys the record while Robbiewho sings, plays, leads the band, writes most of the songs, and arranges the othersprovides an anchoring sensibility, one that savors old sounds but sidesteps nostalgia. Their two talents have fashioned a record thats urgent, honest, and fun. Remember fun?
Round Too Long, Boogie-Woogie Country Girl, and the title track all crackle with the unmistakable Lewis pumping piano; here is a fresh blast of the rowdy religious fire that devastated polite America 60 years ago, delivered with genetic precision and power. It Came From the Southco-written by NRBQs classic-era guitarist Al Anderson and played by its current one, Scott Ligonrecounts the origin story of rock-and-roll with pithy phrases and a neat beat. Memphis Never Falls From Style grooves with three of Chicagos finest jazz elders, notably Eric Schneider, who cut his teeth in the road bands of Count Basie and Earl Hines, and whose sensational clarinet solo is one of the albums highlights. On The Jericho Road, a gospel not-quite-standard that Linda and Jerry Lee sang together as children, is a Sunday song that skips along with Saturday-night joie de vivre. Hardluck, Louisiana recounts Lindas childhood and is the most elegiac and reflectively intense performanceboth vocal and pianoof her career.
Robbie sings lead on Foolmaker, which is saturated with Stax soul. It benefits mightily from two Chicago singers, Joan Collaso and Yvonne Gage, whom he learned of not through their decades of high-visibility work with people like Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Madonna, but by sitting home idly watching Empire. Two more Robbie originals, Thats Why They Call It Temptation and I Just Lived A Country Song, are the kind of weapons-grade country now found only in the shadows of Music Row. The classic Your Red Wagon is presented as a B3-fueled dash through a Naugahyde supper club. Who Cares, the Don Gibson hit, poses the question, What cant the great Merle Haggard sideman and Telecaster master Redd Volkaert do on a 1959 Gibson L5? The answer: Stop playing. (The fadeout was strictly necessary.)
The crisp, unmanipulated sound of Wild! Wild! Wild! owes a lot to Alex Hall, who engineered (for instance, setting up mics and moving baffles as the group worked through arrangement issues) as well as drummed (then hitting record, running across two rooms, and counting off). Alex is known for his similarly sharpening influence on records by J.D. McPherson, The Flat Five, Pokey LaFarge, and The Cactus Blossoms.
Linda Gail Lewiss recording career spans almost 50 years, loosely bookended by the present record and 1969s Together, her duet album with Jerry Leewith her acclaimed summit with Van Morrison, 2000s You Win Again, in the middle. Robbie has made 13 solo records since 1996. His last one, 2016s Upland Stories, demonstrated expanding ambitions and strengths, and was honored with two Grammy nominations, one for Folk Album and another for American Roots Song (Alabama At Night).
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LocationBar None Springfield (View)
245 South 5th Street
Springfield, IL 62701
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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