Couples In Trouble Album

The expansiveness of Robbie's talent is in evidence on this release,
and for those of you ready to tamp down the gravesite of the concept
album, PUT THAT SHOVEL DOWN. Please, check your assumptions at the door.Couples in Trouble
is a collection of 12 songs, each of which presents, well, couples in
trouble. The stories vary and as the stories and characters come from
all over, so does the music, jumping from pop, rock, bluegrass, to
country and back again. Nevertheless these styles are effortlessly
crafted together to clarify and color each scenario. Couple this with
Robbie's unpredictability and complete disinterest in passing
mainstream fancies and it's obvious that someone's in trouble. However,
you, the listener, are not that person.It remains deeply
troubling to us that the American music buying public and media
behemoths throw up their hands in confusion at a diligently crafted
album that DEFIES easy categorization. Their loss.(From Bloodshot Records)