A day before the Moore tornado ripped its way through central Oklahoma, John Fullbright was scheduled to play a gig in Norman, just 10 miles to the south. The show wound up getting canceled due to severe weather, and Fullbright — a lifelong Oklahoma resident who sings about the state on his Grammy-nominated debut, From [...]

Amy Speace How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat (Wind Bone/Tone Tree) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars The sixth album from this Nashville by way of Baltimore singer/songwriter was recorded last year but could just as well have been birthed in the mid-60s. Slight glimmerings of orchestration underline stripped down, acoustic ruminations lamenting on [...]

Already a heavy-hitter on the Red Dirt circuit, the Turnpike Troubadours broke through to a wider audience with 2012’s Goodbye Normal Street, a collection of heartland country-rock and genre-jumping Americana that explored life, love, and lust in middle America. We caught up with frontman Evan Felker during a rare break from the road — “I [...]

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 [...]

A twenty-something Okie with the world-weary songwriting chops of someone twice his age, John Fullbright sings about cross-country travel and hard living on “Jericho,” a song steeped in Americana, country and Southern gospel. Come for the cathartic chorus; stay for Fullbright’s harmonica solo, which gives the tune an added blast of energy during the final [...]

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 [...]