John Fusco

American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator. Also a blues multi-instrumentalist blues musician. Fusco traveled the southeast United States in search of obscure blues artists in the late 1970s. Co-founded the Travis McComb Band, a southern rock ensemble that was popular in the New Haven, Connecticut music scene. For a short time in 1979, he joined and toured with the Dixie Road Ducks from Northern Virginia. His first movie, Crossroads, was inspired by his love for the Delta blues and his travels in the south.