Track 6
“When You Get to the Bottom”
From Robbie Fulks’ Gone Away Backward
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Liner notes: “Live it up while you can/But when you get to the bottom/Don’t reach for my hand,” Robbie Fulks wails, as keening hillbilly harmonies and acoustic guitars underscore his high-lonesome misery.
?Behind the music: The versatile Chicagoan, who once “saluted” Nashville with the song “Fuck This Town,” never stays in one rootsy groove for long; his last album was a Michael Jackson tribute.
Check out if you like: Country tunesmiths with a gift for blending sentiment and dark humor, like Roger Miller and Tom T. Hall.
