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John Fusco was raised in the small town of Prospect, Connecticut, leaving home and high school early to travel the American south as a blues musician and blue collar laborer.
Jul 23, 2018 · Fusco has always had a passion for the blues and now he’s sharing it with the world as he’s been actively recording new music. Blues Rock Review caught up with Fusco to discuss his love of the blues, new music, the possibility of a Crossroads sequel, and more.
Apr 17, 2023 · Fusco spent his youth dreaming about a career in Hollywood, but his life changed at age 14 when his older sister, Kathleen, took him to Veterans Coliseum in New Haven – about 30 miles to the south in the central part of the state – to catch the Allman Brothers Band in action.
Here's an example: After he dropped out of school, Fusco traveled the American South in search of Delta blues musicians who’d never had a top-10 record but were pioneers and innovators of...
John Fusco. Writer: Young Guns. John Fusco dropped out of high school at 16 to travel the American south as a blues musician and factory worker. In his early 20s, he went back to night school where he achieved a GED diploma and was later accepted into NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
As a teenager, John Fusco made an unlikely transition from living on the road as a blues musician to getting accepting at NYU Film School. Thanks to his intriguing background, he soon found himself the interest of mentors like Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy, Serpico) and Ring Lardner Jr. (MASH, Cloak and Dagger).
Growing up there was magical; I made my first movies there (Super 8) when I was 10, filmed in my backyard on Lee Road, an unpaved road back then, surrounded by eastern woodland forest that inspired my lifelong passion for nature, wildlife, and Native American studies (the forest was the hunting and fishing grounds of the Quinnipiac tribe).
