Artist: Paul Burch
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Paul Burch – East To West
In the past five years, multi-instrumentalist Paul Burch has served as musical consultant for the PBS series The Appalachians and released two albums — one of which, Last Of My Kind, was not only among the most seamless efforts of 2001, but likely the only record ever written as a soundtrack to a novel (Tony [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Paul Burch – Fool For Love
Paul Burch’s latest is a compassionate study of the country swing groove, its twelve tracks chronicling the enduring truths of love and loss to rhythms tuned to Nashville’s hidden heart. Burch also continues to carve out his own artistic niche as a stylist. He understands that vocal range has little to do with emotional richness, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub – Blue Notes
I admit I’m a sucker for slow, sad, and blue — songs such as “Willpower”, for instance, the lead track on Paul Burch’s latest album, Blue Notes. It’s a barroom downer littered with lines of lethargy and stale self-pity, and it shuffles forward accompanied by a hazy pedal steel and Burch’s slow, drawling voice. As [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Paul Burch – Horse of a different color
When Paul Burch was growing up, the single record that made the most impact on him wasn’t what is thought of as roots music. It wasn’t an archival folk recording smelling of dust and shellac, though as a kid Burch had access to those and loved them. Of all things, the album that shaped his [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Vic Chesnutt / Lambchop / Paul Burch / Cyod – Lucy’s Record Shop (Nashville, TN)
With a mischievous half-smile, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner cut right to the point: “Why the long faces?” Why indeed. The capacity crowd on this Friday night was there to mourn the passing of Lucy’s Record Shop, the all-ages venue that for six years made Nashville a stop on indie rock’s underground railroad. In 1992, when the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #13 Jan-Feb 1998
Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub – Wire To Wire
It does no good complaining about the inequities of Music Row, the vagaries of country radio, nor how much exceptional music gets drowned in all that mediocrity. No, it’s simply too late to change how things are, only an ongoing compulsion to hope for better. But you still have to wonder at a world in [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub – Pan-American Flash
The past is a powerful magnet, though it pulls us in uncertain directions. Paul Burch, for example, makes music that sounds as if he were a contemporary of Hank Williams. He is not, of course; wasn’t even born yet when Hank died. Question is, does that diminish the honor and intent of his songs? Do [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Paul Burch Jr. – A 40′s kind of guy in a 90′s kind of world
I first laid eyes on Paul Burch in the very appropriate locale of Hatch Show Print. His five-song demo I had heard was not the loathsome country of big hats and slick recordings; rather, this was someone of my generation who had managed to capture the essence of ’40s country. The interior of Hatch Show [...]
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