In 2012 Wes Sharon produced and engineered releases for artists as diverse as singer/songwriter John Fullbright, Turnpike Troubadours , Parker Millsap, Chad Sullins & The Last Call Coalition and an expansive acoustic based singer/songwriter compilation project released in three volumes entitled "Songs From The Alley.." for the JJ's Alley Records imprint. The Turnpike Troubadours 2012 album Goodbye Normal Street was ranked as #1 in Lone Star Music's 100 Best Selling Albums of 2012. The album peaked at number 57 on the Billboard 200. John Fullbright's album From The Ground Up was nominated for Best Americana Album at the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards held on February 10, 2013. Parker Millsap and Michael Rose's album PALISADE was named the Best Album of 2012 by the Oklahoma Gazette in their year's end "Tops of 12" issue. Wes Sharon was nominated for Producer of the Year in the 2013 Lone Star Music Awards citing his work with The Turnpike Troubadours and John Fullbright. The Turnpike Troubadours' Goodbye Normal Street won Album of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2013 Lone Star Music Awards. John Fullbright was awarded the Emerging Artist of the Year. Wes Sharon and The Turnpike Troubadours were awarded the 2013 Single of the Year Award by Texas Regional Radio. John Fullbright's album From The Ground Up was nominated for the 2013 Album of the Year Award by the Americana Music Association. Fullbright was also nominated for the 2013 Emerging Artist of the Year. The Americana Honors & Awards ceremony were held on September 18, 2013 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Parker Millsap was nominated for the 2014 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Wes Sharon was the bass player for Shoe Papa Blue, Angry Son, Burnwagon, Puller and John Fullbright. He currently plays bass on various studio session dates. His playing can be heard on numerous albums including John Fullbright's albums "From The Ground Up" and "Songs", The Damn Quails' "Down The Hatch" and Ali Harter's "Near The Knuckle". In 2016 Wes Sharon signed an endorsement deal with the legendary guitar pickup maker Larry DiMarzio and now uses DiMarzio bass pickups. Wes Sharon produced, recorded and mixed the highly acclaimed debut solo album for Parker Millsap. In October 2013 Wes Sharon began producing and engineering sessions for John Fullbright's highly anticipated and eagerly awaited follow up to "From The Ground Up". The album, titled "Songs", was released on Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers on May 27, 2014. In 2014 Wes Sharon produced, recorded and mixed an album for Texas singer/songwriter Troy Cartwright, the winner of the 25th annual B. W. Stevenson Songwriting Competition in Dallas, and the recipient of the 2014 Rising Star Texas Music Award. The album will be released in 2015 and distributed by RED/Sony. In November 2014 Wes Sharon began producing sessions for The Grahams. Sharon is also engineering and mixing the full length. The album was released on May 19, 2015 on 12 South Records/RED and Sony. In May 2015 Wes Sharon was asked to complete the recording and to mix the Turnpike Troubadours follow up to their album Goodbye Normal Street. The album, titled "The Turnpike Troubadours", was released on September 18 of 2015 on Bossier City/Thirty Tigers and debuted at #3 on the Billboard Country Chart. In a Best of 2015 review Farce the Music stated, "There's space, separation, and vividness in the sound. The slower songs soar, the rockers punch, and there's fiddle and steel galore. On a good set of speakers, this thing is stunning." Wes Sharon produced the debut, self-titled, solo release for Jared Deck. Its first single, "17 Miles", was debuted via Rolling Stone and on the strength of that effort Deck was selected as one of Rolling Stone's 10 New Country Artists You Need To Know in March 2016. Of the experience Deck was quoted as saying, "Wes understands songs and the people who write them. He helped me find a voice I didn't know I had." The album is slated for release on May 6, 2016. Wes Sharon was featured in the June 28, 2016 edition of The Daily Country. http://thedailycountry.com/interviews/qa-wes-sharon-the-grammy-nominated-producer-discusses-the-importance-of-listening-intently-his-app Wes Sharon was featured in the August 8, 2016 edition of the Blugrass Situation in "The Producers". http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/producers-wes-sharon Wes Sharon was featured in the August 11, 2016 of NTown. http://www.normantranscript.com/ntown/mastermind-q-and-a-with-recording-s-wes-sharon/article_e4aebc8c-e648-505d-9cbd-b2850315bdbb.html Wes Sharon was featured in the September, 2016 issue of Mix Magazine in the Profiles section. http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/wes-sharon/428264
