John’s appearance on today’s NPR World Cafe show is available for streaming online on their site. John talks with David Dye about his roots and his music.

Folk singer John Fullbright got his start at the age of 16, playing at small venues in his native Oklahoma for tips and the occasional free meal. “I’d stand up there and play until my voice was gone, which sometimes would take three hours. Sometimes it’d take longer,” Fullbright says. “But that’s where I really learned to scream.”