Country Love Songs is the debut album by American country and alternative country singer/songwriter Robbie Fulks, released in 1996. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jack Leaver referred to Fulks as "cleverly twisted, deliciously irreverent, and one of the best of the new country singer/songwriters" and wrote of the album "Musically, Country Love Songs supplies plenty of hardcore, bottle-tippin', honky tonk country, with a '50s production that sounds like it's supposed to be there. Fulks writes and sings country music that bears little or no resemblance to what dominates the airwaves; rather, his material harks back to an era when humor and dark subject matter shared the same page of a writer's composition book." In a story for No Depression prior to the release of the album, Kevin Roe wrote "Country Love Songs touches all of the right traditional country bases in showcasing Fulks’ knack for memorable melodies and gleefully left-of-center lyrics." Track listing All song by Robbie Fulks unless otherwise noted. "Every Kind of Music But Country" (Tim Carroll) – 2:18 "Rock Bottom, Pop. 1" (Fulks, Dallas Wayne) – 2:38 "The Buck Starts Here" – 3:42 "(I Love) Nickels and Dimes" – 3:05 "Barely Human" – 3:45 "I'd Be Lonesome" – 2:44 "She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died)" – 2:41 "We'll Burn Together" – 2:50 "Let's Live Together" – 2:59 "The Scrapple Song" – 2:42 "Pete Way's Trousers" – 2:34 "Tears Only Run One Way" – 2:49 "Papa Was a Steel-Headed Man" – 3:27 Personnel Robbie Fulks – vocals, guitar Keith Baumann – lap steel guitar Tom Brumley – pedal steel Casey Driessen – fiddle Lou Whitney – bass Darren Wilcox – bass Brett Simons – bass Bobby Lloyd Hicks – drums Ora Jones – vocals Steve Rosen – fiddle, background vocals The Skeletons – background vocals Joe Terry – keyboards, piano D. Clinton Thompson – guitar Production Greg Duffin – engineer Steve Albini – engineer John Golden – mastering Markus Greiner – design Elaine Moore – photography References 1996 debut albums Bloodshot Records albums Robbie Fulks albums albums produced by Steve Albini