John Foster

Nashville, TN USA

December 30, 2003

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John lives in Nashville, TN, but hails from Oklahoma City, OK, the heart of a state steeped in rich musical tradition, a place immortalized in song by music cal greats as diverse as Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, And Rogers and Hammerstein. While Oklahoma seems to have put the W in  C&W, it also must have an  isolated mineral in the groundwater that might explain the mass appeal of modern greats Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, and Garth Brooks, as well as legends Leon Russell and jazz guitarist Barn Kessel.

I guess I was something of a wallflower as a kid, admits John, which explains why he had plenty of uninterrupted time to spend internalizing the classic songs of his youth. He took up guitar to give voice to those things words just cant seem express, and maybe finding a place in his community. The church was a place to use those great gifts for something of a higher purpose, always important to a man that knows where the gifts come from.

This versatile artist has always expressed his gratitude for the continuous broadcast of music he has had the blessing of receiving all his life. He always seems to have a fresh energy and an endless supply of ideas; in hundreds, no thousands of gigs, recording sessions and writing sessions he has never turned into routine performances. His gifts attracted the attention of country singer Sammy Kershaw, who saw him performing at a theme park and soon invited him to join the band. And the Legendary Beach Boys, who on the recommendation of a mutual friend, had him sing a few numbers over the phone and were sufficiently impressed to send him a plane ticket in order to have him takeover the high falsetto parts written and originally performed by Brian Wilson.  And the great Charlie Daniels, who not only appreciates John performing talents, but signed him as a writer in 2000, a time when other publishers were shrinking their staff numbers. His composition Im Not Breaking, co-written with Marc Christian was recently a top-30 single for Curb recording artist, Steve Holy.

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