Robert Ellis - Yesterday's News - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2016 from the singer/songwriter. Upland Stories continues and - with sprinklings of pedal steel, drums, electric guitar, and keyboards - expands the sound of his last acoustic set. Fulks's richly emotional storytelling is illuminated by his instrumental prowess and emotional voice. At 53, he is philosophically reflective, writing Inchwith clear eyes and a full heartInch (Ken Tucker, NPR). Don't get us wrong, his wit is still as quick as his picking; but it's reflected through the lens of fatherhood, marriage, middle age, and the literary voices he is drawn to and draws from Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Mary Lavin, Frank O'Connor, Javier Marias, James Agee. Three new songs-InchAlabama at Night,Inch InchAmerica Is A Hard Religion,Inch and InchA MiracleInch - are meditations inspired by Agee's 1936 trip to Alabama, the sojourn that fueled his furious polemic on American poverty, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

The young songwriters second and debut for New West Records is an impressive and diverse concept album split between five breathtaking folk songs and five soon-to-be country standards. Listening to photographs, one finds it difficult to pigeonhole Robert Ellis. It's even harder to remember that he's barely just begun.

Musician takes the blues music of the city back to the Delta w. a flamboyant, raw sound, covering numbers by his idols Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters & Junior Parker