John Fullbright

Folk Singer

John Fullbright was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, United States on April 23rd, 1988 and is the Folk Singer. At the age of 35, John Fullbright biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 23, 1988
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Okemah, Oklahoma, United States
Age
35 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
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Musician, Singer-songwriter, Songwriter
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John Fullbright Life

John Fullbright (born April 23, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter from Okemah, Oklahoma.

While still in high school, Fullbright performed at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah.

In 2009 he released the album Live at the Blue Door and three years later released his first studio album, From the Ground Up, which received a Grammy nomination in the category Best Americana Album.

He has been the subject of two segments on NPR and was a 2012 winner of ASCAP Foundation's Harold Adamson Lyric Award.

Early life

Fullbright grew up on an 80-acre farm in Okemah, Oklahoma. He began playing the piano at age five and taking piano lessons at the age nine. Fullbright attended public school in Okemah, Oklahoma, and graduated from Okemah High School. While still in high school he performed in an Okemah restaurant using an amplifier borrowed from the school band and made his debut performance at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

Fullbright briefly attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma, but left college to work with musician Mike McClure. A year later, after appearing on McClure's 2008 release did7, Fullbright began his solo career.

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John Fullbright Career

Early career: 2008–2012

Fullbright got his start in the music industry as a member of the Oklahoma Turnpike Troubadours, a group from the Okemah area.

In April 2008, he appeared at The Blue Door in Oklahoma City for the first time. Travis Linville, III, appeared at the Blue Door on February 17, 2009, his fourth appearance at the venue the night before he left for the 2009 Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, was captured live at the Blue Door. The club's founder later became Fullbright's manager. The SXSW's performance in 2012 was described as "as good as if it were a Jonathan Demme concert film." He appeared on the main stage of the Kerrville Folk Festival in June and in July at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival's Pastures of Plenty main stage. "People who hadn't heard Fullbright before were stopped in their tracks by this 24-year-old whose mature lyrics have a dramatic effect," the music critic wrote on her blog.

From the Ground Up, Fullbright's debut studio album, was released on May 8, 2012, and Wes Sharon, a producer/engineer, was mixed and mixed at 115 Recording in Norman, Oklahoma. The name of the book refers to the farmhouse where he grew up. "Every song on this record was written in the house, and I was pretty much written in that house." Fullbright was almost immediately captivated by what he was hearing in the studio with his backing artists. Despite thinking he'd leave the studio with a demo album, he says, "We got lost in it in the three hours we were recording." We all looked at each other and decided, 'No, this is the record,' says the narrator.' It's not going to get any better than this one anywhere else."

"From the Ground Up debuts to be a smashing debut, and this pair of incredibly worded stories that pair with confident performances that pop," The Washington Times said. For the week of June 9, 2012, the album debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top Folk Albums chart.

On October 27, 2012, Fullbright appeared at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute concert honoring Chuck Berry. The performance, which was part of the Hall's American Music Masters Series, took place in Cleveland at the State Theatre. On "Downbound Train," Fullbright performed keyboard and harmonica. "While the show's lead singer David Johansen and Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister were brilliant on the program, it was little known Americana singer-pianist John Fullbright who really shined on his work, a moody interpretation of "Downbound Train," Jeff Niesel wrote.

From the Ground Up was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Americana Album on December 5, 2012. Fullbright says he was scrubbing his bathtub when he learned that From the Ground Up – which he describes as "the little record that might" – had been nominated for a Grammy Award. At the Grammy Pre-Telecast show, which was streamed live on the Grammy Awards website, Fullbright performed "Gawd Above" on the Grammy Pre-Telecast show.

On the 17th Annual ASCAP Foundation Awards Ceremony held in New York City on December 12, 2012, Fullbright received the ASCAP Harold Adamson Lyric Award.

Career: 2013–2015

Fullbright toured the United Kingdom in early 2013. At The Slaughtered Lamb, his first appearance in London was a sell-out show. Fullbright appeared at the 12th Annual American Music Association awards show in Nashville, where he was a nominee in the Emerging Artist of the Year category. "Gawd Above" was also on the soundtrack of the film August: Osage County, which was based on Tracy Letts' play set in Oklahoma, in 2013. Eric Clapton, Bon Iver, Kings of Leon, and Gustavo Santaolalla appear on the soundtrack.

In May 2014, Fullbright's sophomore album was released. Several positive reviews appeared within a week of its inception. "Songs is a warm, winning, and plainspoken Americana album that builds on the authority and charm of From the Ground Up, not by musical-muscle flexing," Jim Fusilli wrote in a Wall Street Journal article. "Neil Young was 24 when he first appeared after the Gold Rush," Lynne Margolis wrote in her book About an American Songwriter. At 27 years old, Joni Mitchell became the first female to wear Blue. Years from now, after it stands the test of time, John Fullbright's Songs could be included in the pantheon of hallowed musical masterpieces." "The simplicity of the album's name, as it contains, is a harbinger of what it contains, mainly stripped to the emotional essence by poetically concise lyrics and heart-rending musical settings," Randy Lewis wrote in his Los Angeles Times review. "What makes John Fulbright so good that it will lead to comparisons to Townes Van Zandt, for example," Meredith Ochs wrote in her article for NPR's All Things Considered. It's likely it's his voice, revolutionary and global weary, or his melodies that play gently and constantly in your head long after his latest album comes to an end. Or his large and often surprising arrangements that allow the songs to breathe on their own accord, as they do on this one.

At an awards ceremony in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame presented Fullbright with its Rising Star award on June 27, 2014.

Fullbright's first major television appearance on American national television came when he appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman on August 28, 2014.

Career: 2016–present

Fullbright performed at the Pastures of Plenty's 19th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in July 2016, not only as the festival's headliner but also as a supporter of many other artists on stage, as well as appearing at tribute sets to Bob Childers and Tom Skinner.

Fullbright, Julia Ferguson, Jim Burns, Michael Fracasso, Jaimee Harris, Levi Parham, Joel Rafael, and the Red Dirt Rangers, one of many performers at the 2017 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, who had died two months earlier, was one of many others on stage, as well as Andy Adams, the Burns Sisters, Jeff Jacobs, Levi Parham, Joel Rafael, Joel Rafael, and the Red Dirt Rangers.

Fullbright changed his attention from the production and recording spectrum to the production and recording genre while also touring intermittently. He produced the album Things Change for the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Americana group American Aquarium.

He reflected earlier in his career on the pressure of recording new material without meeting the requirements set by previous works. According to Fullbright of the Tulsa World, "I'd be lying if I said I didn't." "It's a little bit manic in the sense that I'm under pressure and under pressure." But if I sit and think about it long enough, I realize that the pressure doesn't really exist and that I shouldn't be under pressure. It's a constant struggle between being afraid and being overconfident."

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