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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Songs is a doozy. [Sep 2014, p.93]
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Jul 8, 2014Fullbright’s first record, From the Ground Up, scored a surprise Grammy nomination in the Americana category two years ago, but don’t be surprised when Songs starts topping EOTY lists in December.
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May 30, 2014When it’s all over, you listen again, with equal amazement. No, albums like this one don’t come along very often.
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MojoJul 24, 2014Throughout, a world weariness and wisdom far beyond John Fullbright's 25 years. [Jul 2014, p.93]
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Jul 21, 2014With its 12 hushed and intimate tracks stripped back to the bare essentials--often just Fullbright's voice and guitar--the emphasis is on the strength of the songwriting (and, on Write a Song, the process itself).
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Q MagazineJul 11, 2014Songs is uplifting, his clever wordplay and minor chord piano and guitar ballads reminiscent of his hero Townes Van Zandt. [Aug 2014, p.106]
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Jul 11, 2014Overall, it's a good album.
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MagnetJun 18, 2014These songs are all stripped-down gems by a great performer who's unselfconsciously brave--and moving from strength to strength. [No. 110, p.55]
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May 30, 2014He has figured out how understatement can lend gravity to a song. Mr. Fullbright joins the lineage of terse Southwestern songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, sticking to a few folky chords and reaching for unassailable clarity.
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May 30, 2014While his songs may individually fall into any of these genres, he is first and foremost a songwriter. Thankfully, that is what he does, and he does it as well as anyone in recent memory.
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May 30, 2014Laudable for its ambition, this well-crafted exercise in songwriting ultimately falls short of reaching From the Ground Up‘s heights.
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Jun 19, 2014This young Okie's continuing search for his own voice puts Songs in heady company.
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Jul 14, 2014Songs finds John Fullbright more concerned with the act of writing than with illuminating a subject.