EDITORIAL REVIEWS
With South Mouth, Fulks delivers his follow-up to last year's surprise hit "Country Love Songs." on this release their is nothing but impeccably honky-tonk chops, songwriting that is as reverent as it is raucous, and historical as it is hysterical. Produced by Lou Whitney, whose backup band the Skeletons is featured, along with Tom Brumley (Buck Owens' steel guitar player), and Fulks' backing band.

Robbie Fulks tried to make it as a Nashville songwriter but it didn't work--a result that could've been predicted for an artist so much more quirky and trad-twangy than most of today's slight country fare. Truth be told, though, Fulks is sometimes not much better: His "Fuck This Town," about those Nashville days, reduces a legitimate complaint to sour grapes, and "Dirty Mouthed Flo'" is unfunny enough to have been penned by any two drunken frat boys. But just as often, South Mouth can be swell, matching great old-school country ballads like "Forgotten But Not Gone" with the pedal-steel-driven accompaniment of Missouri's The Skeletons. --David Cantwell