John Fullbright - The Liar [CD]

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\u201cIf you can\u2019t say it, you don\u2019t have to,\u201d sings John Fullbright on \u201cBearden 1645,\u201d the opening track to his new record \u201cThe Liar,\u201d out September 30, 2022.

The song details Fullbright finding refuge in playing the piano, starting as a child and still today. For fans, it may feel like a bit of a rebuttal to \u201cHappy,\u201d the opener from 2014\u2019s \u201cSongs,\u201d one of several in his repertoire that speak explicitly about mining one\u2019s angst in order to make music. In that way, \u201cBearden 1645\u201d is also a firm nod to the fourth wall: Fullbright knows you\u2019re thinking about his songwriting. He is, too\u2026but not quite the way he was before.

The public at-large hasn\u2019t heard much from him since the critically lauded \u201cSongs,\u201d a chasm of eight years that seemed unthinkable for an artist with so much hype surrounding his early career. Why did it take so long?

\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know, and that\u2019s been the scariest question to think about and the hardest one to answer,\u201d Fullbright said.

Maybe it was a tacit rejection of mounting industry pressure, mixed with a little fear. Or maybe it was the adjustment to a massive upheaval of his way of life. Whether we bore witness or not, it\u2019s been a critical period of change for Fullbright, now in his 30s. Since his last release, he moved out of rural Oklahoma\u2014the aforementioned Bearden has a population of about 130 people\u2014to Tulsa. Once there, he worked to build a place for himself in the context of an established and vibrant musical coterie, performing often as both a bandleader and, more curiously, a sideman: storied loner John Fullbright lugging a piano from this small stage to that one with an uncharacteristic looseness.

\u201cIt\u2019s been a process of learning how to be in a community of musicians and less focusing on the lone, depressed songwriter\u2026just playing something that has a beat and is really fun,\u201d Fullbright said. \u201cThat\u2019s 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.\u201d

\u201cThe Liar\u201d was recorded at Steve and Charlene Ripley\u2019s farm-to-studio compound in northeastern Oklahoma. After Steve\u2019s 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, \u201cthe usual suspects.\u201d 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.

\u201cIt was such a collaborative thing with some really cool voices,\u201d Fullbright said, expressing surprise at the ease of the process. \u201cIt's just like playing music in Tulsa. Everybody kind of does whatever they do, and it w

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