An Evening with John Fullbright May 18, 2012

"I have no doubt that in a short time, John Fullbright will be a household name in American music." - Jimmy Webb

Oklahoma has proved fertile ground for songwriting over the years. From Albert Brumley and Woody Guthrie through Leon Russell and Jimmy Webb, Oklahoma has produced songwriters that pursued their singular vision and left the music world enriched, and often changed, by their contributions. Although it would be careless to suggest that an artist just releasing their debut album warrants a place in that group, John Fullbright's From The Ground Up has some of the greats (see above) thinking that the 23-year-old might just have a place in that conversation someday soon.

Fullbright and Johnson released a live album in 2009 that set sales records at Woodyfest, the annual folk festival honoring Woody Guthrie. Fullbright implores his listener to fight the power and hypocrisy with a wrathful vengeance ("Cut the strings from his fingers/Wrap them twice around his throat/Show him not your kind mercy/From the laws that he forgot he wrote").

Fullbright traverses an emotional and musical terrain that is extremely broad, showing equal acuity with tender ballads and songs that make you want to drive faster with your window rolled down. John Fullbright is a young man who finds love, beauty and pain in the here and now, but skepticism and disdain for those that would look past the world or take advantage of the dreams of those hoping for a better world. From the fertile ground of Oklahoma, another songwriting legend may be blooming.
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