Doug Burr

On Promenade

On Promenade
Velvet Blue Music 2007

SJANGER ♦ folk/americana/indiepop/singer-songwriter

The «Should've Known» video (as well as the The Making of Doug Burr's «Should've Known»- video featuring Burr's «In The Garden»), as featured on YouTube. As well, «Whippoorwill» Live in Concert.

"Perfectly crafted tunes...one of Texas' best songwriters." [Dallas Observer]

"On Promenade is really a masterpiece of a record." [Jason Killingsworth, editor of Paste Magazine]

"Texas-sangeren Doug Burr bruker ikke lang tid på å dra deg inn i sin verden...innpakning er nydelig, med spor av artister som Will Oldham, Bright Eyes og Iron & Wine. Hør denne." 5/6 [Stavanger Aftenblad]

"Fra Dallas, Texas kommer Doug Burr med et debutalbum som er meget lovende for fremtiden. Her leveres en rekke delikate låter i tråd med god gammel singer-songwriter tradisjon med et særpreg som skinner...Åpningssporet «Slow Southern Home» minner sterkt om noe Nick Drake kunne hatt som bonusspor på Pink Moon, for dette er virkelig vakkert. Like etter følger «Come To My Senses» som drar tankene til amerikanske tradisjonsbautaer som Lead Belly med et fengende refreng og et drivende vers bygget på ettertenksomme tekster med religiøs tematikk...On Promenade er et spennende debutalbum fra en fyr som virkelig brygger på noe stort. Dette er nemlig godt gjemt gull som man så altfor sjeldent oppdager." [Puls]

"Doug Burr appears to be one of the select few lucky songwriters who possess a fully formed realisation of how to write, record and present their songs to perfection. On this release, Burr has combined his influences to record eleven songs of shimmering majesty. At times one can hear a Wilco or Bright Eyes influence but Burr's songs are so much more than the sum of their influences...brilliant." 10/10 [Americana UK]

"The more we spin this album...the more impressed we are. Wonderfully sincere tracks include «Slow Southern Home», «Graniteville», «Thing About Trouble» and «Blood Runs Downhill» (easily one of the most beautiful songs we have heard this year). This is an album that is bound to stand the test of time. Highly recommended." 5++ [babysue.com]

"You won't hear an earthier, more gripping record this year than Doug Burrs On Promenade... his warm, inviting compositions are effortlessly beautiful and encourage multiple listens." [Fort Worth Star Telegram]

"Easily one of the most mournful, uncomfortably intimate releases of the year...If you want a bracingly melancholic antidote to the season's plastic cheer, On Promenade is your CD." [Fort Worth Weekly]

"11 gorgeous tracks long, On Promenade is first and foremost a sprawling and layered record; the kind that would find a comfortable home beside any warm Lost Highway LP. Burr's excellent balladry showcases soft harmony, and brilliantly understated twists within his songwriting landscape. Guitars never quite drone (with the exception of the chilling «In The Garden») yet an intelligent wall-of-sound reverberates in Burr's dark and moody atmosphere...After repeated listens, it's safe to say that On Promenade is unlike any album to emerge in recent time, and no doubt it will stand as one of the most important releases of 2007. The contrast between warmth and dark melancholy is at war here, and the result is an epic draw." [theblackandwhitemag]

"It's a rustic album that is nudged along gently, both by Burr's poetry and expert work by his collaborators. Instinctively, Glen Squibb, Todd Pertll, Britton Beisenherz bend their sound to mirror Burr's honest-to-goodness voice. Squibb plays the Wurlitzer, a small electronic keyboard that accounts for a lot of the album's atmosphere. Pertll chips in confidently on pedal steel, and Beisenherz moves from organ to bass with ease. Burr's other backers - Andy Odom on bass, Rob Sanchez on drums, Amanda Shires on fiddle and Amanda Leggett on background vocals - flesh out several tracks, all with well-worn feeling...It's a Southern Gothic baroque if ever there was one." [No Fold]

"Have spent some time with Doug Burr's latest release On Promenade, and it has slowly been creeping more and more into my conscious. Hints of paying homage to songwriters like Tweedy, Farrar, Kozelek, and even Young, this recording quietly spins with a hiss of dark, delicate beauty which unfolds into a unique piece of acoustic and mildly sonic songs." [sonicitchmusic.com]

Dougie's vision for this album had a little help from some other durn fine musicians including Todd Pertll (Deadman, Doug Burr, Kristy Kruger and a dozen or so other bands), Jason Upshaw (Midlake), Amanda Shires (Thrift Store Cowboys), Glenn Squibb (Current Leaves, Glendon Farris), Britton Beisenherz (Deadman, Milton Mapes, The Monahans), Roberto Sanchez (The Monahans, Milton Mapes), Amanda Leggett, Andy Odom (The Lonelies, The Hope Trust), Greg Vanderpool (Milton Mapes, The Monahans), Paul Quigg (Vibrolux, Decadant Dub Team), Ernie C. Ernst (The Astronaut Suit, Map of Hawaii, Diamond Smugglers).