This article appears in our March/April issue – subscribe here. Wes Sharon is enjoying a quiet afternoon at 115 Recording, his hole-in-the-wall recording studio in Norman, Oklahoma. There’s a drum session scheduled for 2 o’clock, and John Fullbright – Sharon’s most well-known client, back in Oklahoma for a week of vacation before hitting the road [...]

John Fullbright From the Ground Up (Blue Dirt Records/Thirty Tigers) Rating: One needn’t be a Fulbright Scholar to recognize that this first album from 23-year-old John Fullbright, an Oklahoma singer-songwriter whose hometown happens to be the same as Woody Guthrie’s (Okemah), marks him as a bright and versatile talent in Americana music. He avoids the [...]

Okemah, Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who we first caught wind of at SXSW, will release his debut album, From the Ground Up via Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers on May 8. We’re excited to bring you a full album stream while you wait. The 23-year-old, who will perform the album live from Bob Weir’s T.R.I. Studios on the day [...]