John McLaughlin is based in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He has an extensive live-band history across Ireland, UK and Europe as a lead guitarist in country music bands.

His solo live show caters for a dancing or seated audience. He uses a wide range of musical tastes including Irish/American country and middle of the road styles such as the Beatles, Amy Winehouse, Van Morrison, TRex, etc.  John's extensive  skills as a musician are on show with guitar solos such as Shadows classics and Irish/Scottish accordion tunes.

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His musical influences are the country greats including Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, George Strait and Alan Jackson.

In recent years John has discovered his composing skills.  His first self-penned song, Your Lovin' Eyes, was recorded by Ireland's Voice of Country, Eamon McCann, on the album Sing Me Back Home. John's first album, The Fugitive, showcases a total of 7 self-penned songs as well as covers of some of the songs he loves to perform in his solo live show. The self-penned songs are available for artists to record on request. Go to the SongWriting page to hear samples.