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Jeff and I talk to John about his screenwriting journey from breaking in to his smash hit Young guns. John Fusco has written and produced popular features and TV shows from his breakout...
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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.
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.
John Fusco is a man of many talents. Fusco dropped out of school at the age of 16 to travel the Mississippi Delta and become a blues musician.
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Jul 23, 2018 · Blues Rock Review caught up with Fusco to discuss his love of the blues, new music, the possibility of a Crossroads sequel, and more. What drew you to the blues? Going back to my younger days when I was about 13 or 14 I was introduced to the Allman Brothers by my older sister.
While best known as the creator of the 1986 blues movie classic ‘Crossroads’, John Fusco has returned to his musical stomping grounds with his second album John the Revelator (2020); Fusco’s band, the X-Road Riders are a veritable cast of modern blues stars: Cody Dickinson (the North Mississippi Allstars), who produced Fusco’s first ...
Thanks to the success of Young Guns, Fusco went on to write an array of iconic movies and shows including Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Hidalgo, The Forbidden Kingdom, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, Macro Polo, and now, The Highwaymen.
