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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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 Posted - 28/03/2016 : 19:43:54
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JOHN FULLBRIGHT
Red Dirt Oklahoma Americana bluesy rock & folk singer/songwriter
Gawd Above...a greasy, bluesy battle between the Lord and the Devil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZqGc36f2A&list=PLdL646yZ8QAq8zldFVK6S7gZfnQOLP8PJ
Artist Biography by James Christopher Monger
From the Ground Up Born and raised in Okemah, Oklahoma, singer/songwriter John Fullbright was barely out of high school when he began playing the festival circuit. Raised on the songs of hometown hero Woody Guthrie and steeped in the rich Americana artistry of genre-hopping mavericks like Townes Van Zandt, Randy Newman, and Steve Earle, Fullbright started his music education on the piano at the age of five. He later added guitar to his arsenal, and in his late teens he began honing his craft at the legendary Blue Door in Oklahoma City, eventually releasing a live album with the venue's founder, Greg Johnson. He spent the ensuing years touring and building his fan base, many of whom contributed donations to fund his 2012 Blue Dirt Records studio debut, From the Ground Up. The warm and intimate Songs followed in 2014, again on Blue Dirt Records.
Young Oklahoma singer/songwriter John Fullbright's debut is everything you'd want an Americana troubadour's first outing to be -- striking, fresh, and full of promise. While he has clearly soaked up the sounds of country/folk godheads like Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newbury, Guy Clark, et al, his musical palette includes other influences as well. The chord changes on some of the songs show more complexity than the basic harmonic template employed by master wordsmiths like Van Zandt and Newbury. And while it sounds like he comes from a solo-folkie coffeehouse tradition and it's easy to imagine most of these songs working quite well within the context of a solo-acoustic man-and-guitar set, there's a crack band at the core of most of these cuts delivering just the right amount of rootsy muscle without ever overpowering the arrangements or the songs themselves.
The album starts off on a high note with "Gawd Above," a greasy, bluesy battle between the Lord and the Devil. The horned one pops up again on "Satan and St. Paul," a loping lament that finds a more earthly protagonist pushed to the breaking point. The piano-led tunes "Nowhere to Be Found" and "Fat Man" seem to owe more to early Randy Newman than anything in the roots realm, rendering an effective contrast to the dominant dusty, alt-country feel of the record. Throughout the album, whether he's coming off like a rootsy road dog or a post-Tin Pan Alley piano balladeer, Fullbright consistently displays a level of lyrical finesse that would be impressive in an artist with twice as many years behind him, which only bodes well for his future work. --AllMusic Review by James Allen
John Fullbright - "Moving" - KXT Live Sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pj3RsX9QkM
Folk Alley (FolkAlley.com) - In Studio with John Fullbright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DS4fOsEbrE
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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation.
I can't contrive a song. Ð GENE CLARK
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 28/03/2016 19:47:20 |
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JOHN FULLBRIGHT-great roots rock Americana
