Robbie Fulks "Duets Night" (Night 1 of 2)
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FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB PRESENTS:Robbie Fulks Duets Night (Night 1 of 2)$35 General Admission SEAT / Reserved Tables Available JOIN FOR AN INTIMATE EVENING OF COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES AS ROBBIE INVITES A CAST OF INCREDIBLE TALENT TO JOIN HIM FOR A FUN PROGRAM OF DUETS! Its time to make a change, Robbie Fulks declares at the start of Now Then, his second album on Nashvilles Compass Records. This statement is familiar to anyone who follows this critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriters career.
That restless spirit lies at the heart of Now Then. Like a well-stocked jukebox in your favorite bar, the 12 songs on Now Then range from folk to power pop, jazz to old-time country. Its from an older persons outlook, and mostly true, Fulks says.
Indeed, the album opener Workin No More Blues quietly resists a world that demands greater conformity by the day: Now Im weary of those around me/And I know for sure theyre sick of me/They say I wont do as Im told/They say Ive lost the thread/Im too old. The aged narrator of Savannah is a Devilish Girl a dance between banjo and fiddle dreams of disappearing into rural life. Love appears in the song The Thirty-Year Marriage as something more potent than romance.
A constant across Now is the novelists eye for lyrical detail. Peeling back these story songs often uncovers harsh truths, as in Your Tormentors, where the musics late-night setting hides family secrets. In That was Juarez, This is Alpine, a narrator describes a cross-border journey into a troubled landscape of political division and historical injustice, with the music providing an epic sweep.
And Ocean City tells a coming-of-age story set in summer 1974, narrated by a young boy. Adults drink and play gin rummy, and the boardwalk holds lifelong desires. The girl downstairs/Has wavy yellow hair/That Ill be seeing a long time in dreams, Fulks sings.
***PARKING***There is rather limited street parking in the area, we recommend arriving by rideshare, bicycle, or rickshaw. ***AGE RESTRICTIONS***21+, minors admitted with guardian