John Fullbright - The Liar
Release date: Friday, September 30th 2022
For John Fullbright, Community Drove Creativity On New Album The Liar
Out September 30th via Blue Dirt Records & Thirty Tigers, his first in eight years.
The public at large hasnât heard much from John Fullbright since his critically lauded album Songs; a chasm of eight years that seemed unthinkable for someone with so much hypeâincluding a GRAMMY nod, an Americana Music Association Emerging Artist nomination and awards from ASCAP and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fameâsurrounding his early career. Why did it take so long?
âItâs been a process of learning how to be in a community of musicians and less focusing on the lone, depressed songwriterâŚjust playing something that has a beat and is really fun,â Fullbright says. On September 30th, Fullbright is set to end the dry spell with the release of his new LP, The Liar, opening up his newfound trust in musical collaboration for the world to hear. âThatâs not to say there are no songs on this record where I depart from that because there are, but there's also a band with an opinion. And that part is new to me.â
Today, Fullbright released the first taste of The Liar with the albumâs ever-developing second track. âParanoid Heartâ starts out as a plaintive little folk song and explodes into a memorable, Petty-esque rocker bolstered by drummer Paddy Ryan and Jesse Aycockâs just-unhinged-enough slide guitar solo. Crescendoing in a fiery, driving refrain, âParanoid Heartâ is a bellwether of whatâs to come from Fullbrightâs newly minted, community-driven output.
More About The Liar: The Liar was recorded at Steve and Charlene Ripleyâs farm-to-studio compound in northeastern Oklahoma. After Steveâs passing, Charlene flirted with the idea of selling the studio property, so Fullbright mobilized quickly to ensure he was able to record there before it changed hands. He threw together a band made up of, as Fullbright calls them, âthe usual suspects.â Anyone fleetingly familiar with Oklahoma music will recognize the roster, which includes Jesse Aycock, Aaron Boehler, Paul Wilkes, Stephen Lee, and Paddy Ryan, all of whom are in more bands than seems possible. Along with a few more friends stopping in to lay down takes, they finished the songs and tracked the album with engineer Jason Weinheimer in a whirlwind four days.
âIt was such a collaborative thing with some really cool voices,â Fullbright said, expressing surprise at the ease of the process. âIt's just like playing music in Tulsa. Everybody kind of does whatever they do, and it works.â
The grab-and-go momentum landed Fullbright in the studio with some old songs (âUnlocked Doorsâ also appeared on 2009âs Live at the Blue Door), some new, and some unfinished, making his newfound trust in musical collaboration essential to the arrangements and reflected fully on the final album. The Liar, as a result, utilizes emotional and instrumental dynamics in ways Fullbright hasnât allowed himself to explore fully before. Thereâs a noticeable slack here, an indulgent instrumental break there, and the general feeling that the tight-lipped John Fullbright who agonized over the writing process and then hesitated to talk about the meanings behind his songs in the past has eased up.
âWhat rules didnât I have?â Fullbright says about his former songwriting self. âEven like, how many syllables were in a line, I had arbitrary rules for. So much of that has gone out the door, and Iâm so much happier. Itâs really just the idea that you donât have to do this by yourself. Itâs so much more fun to collaborate.â
The Liar Tracklist:
Bearden, 1645
Paranoid Heart
Stars
The Liar
Unlocked Doors
Where We Belong
Social Skills
Lucky
Blameless
Poster Child
Safe To Say

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