Biography

SINGULAR SINGER-SONGWRITER CHRIS FULLERTON RE-ISSUINGDEBUT EPILEPSY BLUES ON AUSTIN-BASED EIGHT 30 RECORDS

Chris Fullerton sings country music bold and brave beyond compare. Evidence: Epilepsy Blues. The Central Texas singer-songwriter's debut, releasing on Austin-based Eight 30 Records on August 11, delivers hard truths both elegantly (“Bad Winds”) and effortlessly (“Come to Texas”). High watermarks 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.”He survived with tales to tell. Listen closely: Sharp storytelling guides the journey throughout the new album (“Seven Roman Candles,” “Motel Blues”). Admittedly, the road toward living with epilepsy has been paved with dark holes. “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 it. 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, honkytonk and folk, listening to these tunes somehow keeps you enjoyably off-balance until you find yourself swimming along in their orbit.”