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Mar 8, 2021 · Fusco joined the Blues Rock Show to discuss his journey into the blues, his two blues albums, and Crossroads, including the film’s iconic guitar duel and what a potential remake would be like.
Apr 17, 2023 · But the blues has always been in his blood. A high-school dropout at age 16, he spent his youth busking on street corners across the Delta and Gulf Coast while scouring the region in search of talent that never made it to the spotlight.
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).
Sep 23, 2021 · When John Fusco — writer, producer, musician and all-around Renaissance man of the Mud City neighborhood in Morristown — first met Sarah Morrow, one of the world’s foremost trombonists, she was vetting him as he approached Dr. John on a flight from the Burlington airport.
Aug 22, 2019 · Fusco’s mother was behind him 100 percent, but his father, who was “very practical,” tried to discourage his son from pinning his hopes on such a high-up and unlikely star. “He grew up Italian-American in the Depression.
Apr 2, 2019 · John Fusco is the screenwriter of The Highwaymen, launching on Netflix on March 29th. Over his three-decade film career he has written Crossroads, Young Guns, Thunderheart and Hidalgo, among others. He was also the creator of Netflix Orginal Series Marco Polo.
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.
