Biography

The album “Halfway From Nashville” is the next stop on songwriter Sean Harrison’s long, twisty, up-and-down road back to music from a long time gone.

In his early twenties, Sean played full-time in Texas and shared the stage with some legendary songwriters and players. There was a promising path for a music career ahead of him. “But I got lost and stayed lost for a while,” he says, without remorse. “Booze. Drugs. I wasted a lot of time.” Years later, clean and sober, Sean played time-to-time in a variety of minor acts but made a living doing other things. It was only recently, with a new view on life and an unrelenting creative impulse, that he recommitted to his songwriting. “I don’t play the guitar with the confidence of youth I once had. My voice has some miles on it. But I realized there are songs that need to be written and I don’t have any more time to waste.”

Sean was born in Nashville and raised mostly in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he grew up in the literary home of his father, the late novelist/screenwriter William Harrison, probably best known for the movie Rollerball. His father taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas, which put Sean in frequent company of numerous talented writing students and visiting authors. It also connected him closely with a lively college campus during the turbulence and cultural renaissance of the late 1960s. Sean lived some years in Europe, then Texas, with a lot of traveling and finally back home to Fayetteville. “I have busked in London, Paris, Florence and Venice, southern Spain and other parts of Europe, New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth,” Sean said. “It’s only looking back that I can appreciate where I’ve been. I don’t regret anything – even my biggest mistakes.”

Lately, Sean is best known in the songwriter community for his humorous, quirky and self-mocking country tunes about the average guy’s stumbles and struggles through American life. He also writes the occasional sad song about suckers and losers. With a style that crisscrosses boundaries of country, blues and rock, Sean’s literary lineage explores new territory in the southern storytelling tradition.

He has performed solo and in a variety of bands doing shows across Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, and he has collaborated in recording projects including writing, co-writing and producing the popular self-titled debut EP for country singer Milton Patton. That album reached Top 200 on the iTunes Country Album Chart in 2016, and as high as #5 on various indie country charts. One song was featured in the movie ADDicted.

“Halfway from Nashville,” Sean’s debut, will be released in November 2020 through his own Arky Blue Productions, with a physical CD release licensed to Cosmic Cowboy Records of Fayetteville, Arkansas.