Support our efforts, sign up to a full membership!
(Start for free)
Register or login with just your e-mail address
Country 20/06/2017

Texas Singer/Songwriter Chris Fullerton Reissues Debut Album On Austin's Eight 30 Records

Hot Songs Around The World

Water
Tyla
306 entries in 20 charts
Stick Season
Noah Kahan
313 entries in 19 charts
Houdini
Dua Lipa
285 entries in 26 charts
Strangers
Kenya Grace
442 entries in 24 charts
Lovin On Me
Jack Harlow
293 entries in 22 charts
Popular
Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
266 entries in 18 charts
Lose Control
Teddy Swims
316 entries in 25 charts
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
159 entries in 24 charts
Si No Estas
Inigo Quintero
283 entries in 17 charts
Greedy
Tate McRae
621 entries in 28 charts
Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield
291 entries in 22 charts
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
615 entries in 23 charts
Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
572 entries in 20 charts
Snooze
SZA
223 entries in 13 charts
Texas Singer/Songwriter Chris Fullerton Reissues Debut Album On Austin's Eight 30 Records
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Chris Fullerton sings country music bold and brave beyond compare. Epilepsy Blues, the Central Texas singer-songwriter's debut on Austin-based Eight 30 Records (out August 11, 2017), delivers hard truths both elegantly ("Bad Winds") and effortlessly ("Come to Texas"), and simply stun with candor ("I Feel Nothing," the title track). "The songs are about my depression and struggle to cope with a medical crisis," Fullerton says. "A lot are very hopeful about being in a dark place but knowing there's light at the end of the tunnel and I'm gonna survive."

The road for an artist living with epilepsy has been paved with dark holes; Fullerton survived with tales to tell. Sharp storytelling guides the journey throughout the new album ("Seven Roman Candles," "Motel Blues"). "Songs such as 'Bad Winds' are just kinda hopeless," Fullerton says. "The chorus of 'Motel Blues' is, 'I'm taking a westbound train and I won't be home again.' 'Westbound Train' is a freight-train-hopping saying that means you're dying. There's a lot of death in [the release]. There's also a lot of strange things that are just in my brain on a daily basis like 'El Paso Spacedance.'"

"It's hard to say exactly where Chris Fullerton's Epilepsy Blues takes you, but it definitely transports," says Matt Harlan, the noted Houston-based singer-songwriter and recent Fullerton convert. "The songs have a time zone all to themselves, filled with sonic wormholes that can send you back in time, out into space or just to some unfamiliar house next door. Although they are rooted in noticeable traditions of country, blues, honky-tonk and folk, listening to these tunes somehow keeps you enjoyably off balance until you find yourself swimming along in their orbit."

Other songwriters who own their own orbits: key influences Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt, the ultimate lone ranger (Fullerton named his only son Townes for good reason). The stunning combination of these two haunting Fullerton's work immediately turned heads. "Some albums are such a mind-blowing fine surprise that they daunt a reviewer's skill to summon up heavenly-high praise," raved Lone Star Music magazine. "Epilepsy Blues, the debut full-length release by the virtually unknown Austin-based Chris Fullerton, is one of those all-too-rare magical recordings."

His magic happens quickly. Fullerton is a deep-browed lyricist who chases his muse so fast his pen feels on fire. "It doesn't take me long to write a song," he explains. "I know a lot of writers stew over songs for a month, but every one of these songs only took me a couple hours. They usually just come out, lyrics and music both. They're just there and at all times of the day. I usually wake up in the morning and have something to write musically and lyrically. It's a constant process to get it down fast enough."






Most read news of the week


© 2001-2024
top40-charts.com (S4)
about | site map
contact | privacy
Page gen. in 0.5159700 secs // 4 () queries in 0.0045473575592041 secs


live