Robbie Fulks was born in Pennsylvania in 1963 but regards North Carolina as his childhood home. Family members variously played the fiddle, autoharp, banjo, and guitar, and Fulks picked up on the latter two of these from an early age. A couple of years studying at Columbia University in New York brought the chance to follow the well-trodden path to the cafés of Greenwich Village, home of so many folk artists in the 1960s. Tipping his hat to the most celebrated of these, Fulks once released an album reinterpreting the songs from Bob Dylan’s “Street Legal”.
Far from being a follower of trends, however, this is an unconventional artist who sets out to challenge and surprise his audience. He featured several Michael Jackson hits on his 2010…

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