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Post by Diglerdee on Mar 11, 2009 13:18:41 GMT -8
Damn, Bob, I thought you would have written up last night's show already and all I'd have to do was chime in with a few pithy comments. I suppose I will just soldier on, aided and abetted by our new bullet point feature. So here we go: - Robbie may have been exaggerating when he described Barbes as "pocket-sized". There were about 35 people in the back room and the place was PACKED
- Great show with a very informal vibe, and a nice relaxed chemistry between Robbie and Jenny "Viola Boldt" Scheinman. The two of them traded songs back and forth for the length of the set (about 80 minutes or so), Robbie on acoustic and Jenny on mandolin and violin (and some very nice vocals)
- Lazyranchhand will be happy to know that Robbie, despite focusing on 50 Vc. Doberman, kept it country (or at least folky) with (I think this is pretty accurate) "Goodbye Virginia", "Guess I Got It Wrong", "Imogene", "I'll Trade You Money...", a birthday tribute to Norman Blake (Bob, help me out with the name of that one), and a version of "Moses On The Mountain" that was, dare I say it, nearly a religious experience.
- I don't know any of JS's stuff but it was all quite enjoyable as well, especially the song that morphed into a duet with Robbie on "Mystery Train". She also did a couple of new songs she wrote while touring with Rodney Crowell.
- On the comic side of the fence, Robbie read (off his iphone!) parts of a lengthy e-mail he got from a fan critiquing Doberman, it was extremely funny because every song received praise which was immediately followed by a list of its faults and/or suggestions for improving it. There was also an older, rather inebriated gentleman in the crowd whom Robbie engaged in a rather bizarre conversation.
- Social notes: I finally met Bob (albeit for about 10 seconds), and Mr. Nicolas Fulks was in the house (Robbie, if you're reading this, I'm the guy who sat in his seat AND on your coat. Welcome to NYC and your thoughtless fans herein!)
Shows run for the next three Tuesdays, if you're in the area I highly recommend you check one out (but get there early!). Nice review Pro, I'm intrigued about the bizarre conversation between Robbie and older, rather inebriated gentleman. Please, do tell. Also, Did Robbie do The Sun of Your Soul? Everytime I hear it, it spooks me just a little bit more.
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Post by pro on Mar 11, 2009 17:52:48 GMT -8
Nice review Pro, I'm intrigued about the bizarre conversation between Robbie and older, rather inebriated gentleman. Please, do tell. Also, Did Robbie do The Sun of Your Soul? Everytime I hear it, it spooks me just a little bit more. No "The Sun of Your Soul", sorry, I think the songs I listed are everything Robbie took the lead on. Re the drunk old dude (as the euphemisms fall away...), I don't remember all the details of his conversation with Robbie, but I can add that I am pretty sure he was also a fairly DEAF dude, earlier in the evening when I was out at the (very mellow and quiet) bar waiting for them to open up the back room, the calm was shattered by his "YOU READY FOR ANOTHER BEER?" to one of his companions, and I practically jumped out of my shoes. Periodic similar outbursts kept things lively until the doors opened. As for his interaction with Robbie, here's what I do remember, more or less, I am pretty sure it was precipitated by his between songs (conjure up Foster Brooks here) "YOU GUYS ARE GREAT", which led to something approximating this exchange: Robbie: Thanks! You going to come back next week? DOD: I'm gonna be in Green Bay next week Robbie: Are you FROM Green Bay? DOD: (derisively) Green Bay, right
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Post by mrbadexample on Mar 11, 2009 18:53:16 GMT -8
Yeah, the DOD was pretty odd (and pretty loud). But that "conversation" with Robbie was entertaining. I believe it started with the DOD saying, "Where you gonna be next?" or something like that, right after Robbie and Jenny said they'd be doing the show for the next two Tuesdays. And it ended with Robbie asking, "Are you from here or from Green Bay?" and the DOD saying, "Are you kidding?"
Robbie then turned to Jenny and said, "This sort of thing didn't happen with Bill last week, did it?"
And the song played as a tribute to Norman Blake was "Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane," which was pretty awesome.
James
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Post by bruddah on Mar 11, 2009 19:01:40 GMT -8
I heard it more like:
Robbie: We'll be back here the next two weeks. DOD: I'm gonna be in Green Bay next week. Robbie: What does Green Bay have that you can't find in Brooklyn? DOD: Why don't you come to Green Bay? Robbie: (pause) You mean you're not from Brooklyn? DOD: (especially loud and derisively) Yeah, right.
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Post by pro on Mar 12, 2009 3:52:33 GMT -8
Rashomon comes to Brooklyn.
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Post by antoine on Mar 16, 2009 8:40:47 GMT -8
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Post by Bad Dad on Mar 18, 2009 7:50:01 GMT -8
That was at first freaky, then alternated between OMG and erotic.
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Post by bruddah on Mar 19, 2009 8:17:05 GMT -8
Anybody see the Robbie and Jenny show on St Patrick's Day? I figure the drunk character the week before was enough for me.
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Post by Bad Dad on Mar 19, 2009 8:53:53 GMT -8
I had to watch that again! My previous impressions were fortified. Those three women could kill a man.
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Post by mrbadexample on Mar 19, 2009 18:03:53 GMT -8
Another really fun show from Robbie and Jenny (no Viola this week...Robbie introduced Jenny as the "best fiddler in her price range," or something along those lines) on St. Patrick's Day.
There were a fair number of repeats from both Robbie and Jenny from the previous week (just as good the second time around!), and in the covers department, they did "Bury the Bottle with Me" (by request), "Little Joe" (by Hank Snow, I think), the Carter Family's "Single Girl, Married Girl," and, best of all, Jimmy Martin's "Sophronie," which closed the show.
I probably should've written a recap right after the show, because now it's Thursday and Tuesday seems so long ago.
Anyway, more fun next Tuesday.
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Post by flat on Mar 22, 2009 6:27:01 GMT -8
From a blog called Whippleworld: websites and single song downloadsMitch and I are looking for examples of good musician promotional websites. I got an email from him day before yesterday that simply said “I like this one” and I do, too. I love it. I think Robbie Fulks’ website is our current favorite example of a tasteful, functional site. No flash or artsy slow loading graphics it just simply features the content and makes it easy to get to. People want the information, not a Flash intro amusement park ride. And this example site shows the idea that we’d been thinking of which is to use a WordPress blog (same thing Whippleworld runs on) as the engine. Mitch and I think that because Fulks had the same idea we’d just been talking about there’s only one logical conclusion… Robbie Fulks is a genius. Mitch and Glenn other musicians in the group could benefit from a website in this basic style where updates are entered as posts just as easily as putting a post here. “Pages” instead of “posts” would be tabs at the top for info that doesn’t change and for the shopping cart section. When you create a page, it automatically puts a tab at the top, no programing involved. Look at the store and the place with the lyrics and guitar chords on Fulks’ site. Before you browse around on it, first read his post about single song downloads. Robbie Fulks has embraced it as the main way he’s going to sell his stuff and I think Americana is the perfect genre to utilize it.Sadly The Band of Heathens use the "amusement park" style you refer to. Right now though, at the bottom of the opening screen is a neat feature to "Send-A-Friend-A-Song" that I found very user-friendly to send one of their songs to someone. Since I don't surf a lot of artist's sites, I'm not aware if this is a common feature that's been around a long time or not. It just seemed like a good way to spread the word about the music and lead a potential new listener to the band's website to explore. www.bandofheathens.com/flash/
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Post by Dan on Mar 26, 2009 16:11:10 GMT -8
Cult country wit Robbie Fulks recently released 50 new songs—a Prince-like deluge—exclusively via his Web site for $35. Fulks isn't sure whether he'll release the music on CD, but says this is not just an eco-nomic experiment. By writing many more songs than could fit on a standard disc, Fulks says he was trying to discover new musical ideas that might not have occurred "under more stringent self-censorship." (His plan worked.)community.livejournal.com/paisley_park/59734.html
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Post by Dan on Mar 28, 2009 13:48:54 GMT -8
From the blog Let's Kill Saturday Night: Music of the futureI'm glad I subscribe to Newsweek magazine. They had an article in it about musicians selling their songs online and it happened to mention one of my favourites, Robbie Fulks, had released 50 songs recently on his website for download only. I had somehow not registered for email updates so I would never have known about this otherwise. I love the idea of getting the music direct like that. He said he was doing it this way because they were songs that might not otherwise get released by the record company, especially since he is not well-known. I think more people should do that. When I really like a band or singer, I want to get everything they've ever done and I know there must be vaults of stuff that never gets released. I know there's tons of Morrissey b-sides that I'm missing and I can never find them on download sites. I'd be willing to pay for them and I'm sure plenty of other people would to. Get on it, artists !
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Post by ohk4 on Mar 28, 2009 18:50:39 GMT -8
[/i][/quote] Vaults or ... flash drives
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Post by antoine on Mar 31, 2009 9:41:05 GMT -8
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