James Scott Bullard is a consummate, yet wildly energetic showman, who's songs are real life reflections that range from the rowdiness of a full on saloon brawl, to feeling like the melancholy comfort of a black and white movie. Always lyrically bittersweet; It is effortless poetic bare-knuckle blues, common-man country, and middle finger roots rock & roll, all rolled into one long, tall package.
Hailing from South Carolina, Bullard's past is fraught with love, loss, death, addiction, human suffering, torrid tales of flirting with the devil, the wrath of deep-south religion, a constant walk on a moral tightrope and more southern-gothic lore than a Tennessee Williams play.
Bullard plays multiple instruments, has collected a mass amount of glowing critical reviews and had much written about his prolific songwriting and troubled past. He has won several awards for his efforts; including three Torch Awards from New Jersey's WDVR FM for: Artist of the Year, Alternative Country Album of the Year and the coveted Gram Parsons Cosmic American Legacy Award, and more recently charted at #1 for three weeks in a row on the S.C. RMR Roots Country Charts, held the #40 spot for 2 weeks in the U.S. Top 50 RMR Roots Country Charts, debuted at #13 for Dec. 2011 on the FAR (Freeform American Roots) charts, was voted one of the Top 10 of 2011 by Country Fried Rock's mountain of listeners and had his last release named "CD of the week" for the last week of Jan. 2012 by The Roots Music Revival.
Bullard has traveled far and wide, slept in lots of motels and even on a few pool tables and played on countless stages across the U.S. He has also been included in several tributes to the late Gram Parsons as well as the late Townes Van Zandt and continues to carry the torch on Internet, satellite and good old-fashioned radio stations all over the globe wherever Americana music is appreciated.
