Budwig,Bart Another Burn On The Astroturf CD

Bart Budwig is a son of Idaho, a cosmic country crooner, a rousing trumpet player, and cryin'-style soul singer. His music is made up of seemingly incongruous parts; thrum & strum country rhythms, jazz guitar melodies, R&B vocals. When Bart sings he draws out words into meditative mantras, whole note neologisms that keep you hanging on until his raspy voice trails off in a ragged edge. His forthcoming album, Another Burn On The AstroTurf was recorded over five days by a seven-piece band inside the historic OK Theater in Enterprise, OR. It's a melancholy rhapsody that recalls the uncorked rock n' roll spirituality of king mystic Van Morrison, the gloomy nostalgia of dark prince Nick Drake and the songcraft sans self-seriousness of 70s Muscle Shoals. Like those psycho-spiritual song crafters, his power comes from vocal idiosyncrasies - intonations of love, impermanence, hope, humor.

1. Time for Two 2. First to Go 3. Strong Coffee 4. Human Again 5. Oh Mother 6. Rolling Stoned 7. Sock Song 8. The Captain and the Dreamer 9. Northern Sky 10. Four Leaf Clover 11. Five Bucks