(Cushing, Okla.) John Fullbright will be the featured guest at the Cushing Country Club for Third Thursday with John Cooper. Tickets are now on sale at the CCC $15 advance/$20 at the door. Cooper (of the Red Dirt Rangers) has brought a stellar line up of guests to the CCC in 2012 including Monica Taylor, Randy Crouch, Parker Milsap, Chuck Dunlap,Tom Skinner, Bo Phillips, Jesse Aycock, Steve Rice, Greg Jacobs, Ben Han and Mike McClure.
Fullbright’s first studio produced cd From The Ground Up was released in May of this year. On June 15 the ASCAP Foundation announced that the track “Moving” is the recipient of their annual Harold Adamson Lyric Award. John will be formally honored at a gala event in New York this month, on December 12.
John Fullbright, the young man from Okemah, OK burst upon the Southwest music scene in 2009 with a stellar live album recorded at the Blue Door in Oklahoma City. From his home in Okemah, Oklahoma—also the hometown of Woody Guthrie—Fullbright had already honed his songwriting and playing skills to a degree that he was a favorite at festival campgrounds before he was even out of high school.
Quickly produced as a “calling card” for the 2009 Folk Alliance Conference, Live at the Blue Door went on to set sales records at WoodyFest, the annual folk festival honoring Woody Guthrie.
In the intervening years, Fullbright has opened for a host of folk and Americana names—including Jimmy Webb, Joe Ely, Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso, and Steve Poltz—from Oklahoma to Europe and back.
With the 2012 release of From The Ground Up, Fullbright, still in his early twenties, has joined the conversation about the best new artists in music today. Firmly rooted in a variety of musical styles, he draws on what has come before, but without imitation. Forget labels when you listen to John Fullbright. He is not folk, not Americana and not pop, but possibly the best fusion of them all.
“I have no doubt that in a short time, John Fullbright will be a household name in American music.” — Jimmy Webb
Check out John Fullbright at https://www.johnfullbrightmusic.com
Please call the Cushing Country Club to purchase tickets for the December 20 performance at 918-225-0811 or email [email protected]
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