Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Robbie Fulks and Bill Kirchen

(TUKERTON, New Jersey) — The Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Robbie Fulks & Bill Kirchen on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., show time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 in advance and $45 at the door.

Robbie Fulks is a singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer and songwriter. In 1983, he moved to Chicago and joined Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus Bluegrass Band. He taught music at the Old Town School of Folk Music from 1984 to 1996 and worked as a songwriter on Music Row in Nashville from 1993 to 1998. His early solo work – Country love songs (1996) and South Mouth (1997) – helped define the “alternative country” movement of the 1990s. His music in recent years relies primarily on acoustic instrumentation; it takes him back in part to his early bluegrass days and stretches the boundaries of that tradition with old-time ramblings and loosely orchestrated musings on love, the slings of time and the problems of ordinary people.

Its release in 2017, Highland Stories, earned Best of the Year recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone, among others, as well as two Grammy® nominations, for Folk Album and Americana Song (“Alabama At Night”). His most recent release is Bluegrass Vacationreleased in 2023.

After counting how many decades he worked as a professional guitar slinger, master of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen jokes: “Well, they don’t make 50 like they used to. » They don’t often have careers like his either.

From performing with his jug band Who Knows Pickers in the Ann Arbor High School senior talent show (also on the bill: future Iggy Pop), to birthing the Americana genre with the ” original hippie country group, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Aviators. , this affable Austinite has been everywhere, man, flying alongside some of the coolest cats on the planet, including the Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe and former Lowe protégé Elvis Costello.

Kirchen toured the world with Lowe, who produced an album by Kirchen’s post-Airmen band the Moonlighters, and Costello recruited Kirchen for high-profile gigs like the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival – and even named his band festival after that of Kirchen. Hammer of the Gods Honky-Tonk album. Lowe appears on this 2006 album and its 2010 follow-up, Word to the wisealongside Costello, Maria Muldaur, Dan Hicks and other luminaries.

Now, those albums, plus Kirchen’s third album, 2013’s Proper Records Seeds and stemsare combined with three bonus tracks from Transatlantic, his 2016 project with pub-rock progenitor Austin de Lone, in the form of a two-CD retrospective titled The Proper Years. Waxworks, is a best-of vinyl version of the complete collection.

Somewhere between propelling Commander Cody’s “Hot Rod Lincoln” into the top 10 and earning a Grammy nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance, Kirchen dubbed his sound “dieselbilly,” shrouding his penchant for sub -country genre of truck driving songs (as in big trucks). , not microphones), its intersection with the Bakersfield Sound and its own name into a memorable nickname.

Tickets are $40 in advance (plus fees) and available for purchase online. The Lizzie Rose Music Room is located at 217 E. Main Street in Tuckerton, New Jersey.

The Lizzie Rose Music Room is a “listening room”, not a bar or restaurant. They feature a variety of music including blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, rock, soul, singer-songwriters, and more.