MP3 My Lost and Found - FOLK: Modern Folk

This latest CD by West Virginian Todd Burge was produced by 2006 Grammy Winner Tim OâBrien and recorded at John Prineâs studio, The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville TN, with David Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Hartford) as engineer.

13 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk, COUNTRY: Americana

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Todd Burge â My Lost and Found Produced by Tim OâBrien


This latest CD by West Virginian Todd Burge was produced by 2006 Grammy Winner Tim OâBrien and recorded at John Prineâs studio, The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville TN, with David Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Hartford) as engineer. The band includes Dirk Powell (Loretta Lynn, Sting)-Cajun Accordion & Keyboards, Dennis Crouch (Alison Krauss, Robert Plant)-Bass, Kenny Malone (John Prine, Darrell Scott) -Drums, Dan Dugmore (James Taylor) -Pedal Steel and
Tim OâBrien on Fiddle, Mandolin, Bouzouki and backing vocals

This new CD is a collection of tunes revolving around characters with and without character, lost souls and new found spirituality. Over the years Iâve played everything from Punk-a-Billy to Bluegrass. This mix of sounds has often times excited, confused, and frustrated me and I hope that I have dispatched some of that mental angst into some interesting stories and sounds here.

The final mix here sounds part Folk, Cajun, Country Blues, Bluegrass and Rock. Iâm thrilled that we were able to reel it all into some cohesive shape by having Tim OâBrien produce. For the past few years Iâve often wondered what my tunes would sound like while under the influence of Tim. Now I know and I hope you dig it a fraction as much as I.

I wrote the lyric for My Lost and Found, the title track while watching the dream sequence in the Big Lebowski. I was sick and nodding off and when I woke, I had this tune about what one might find if they became lost in my attic. You can practically find a whole life lost up there, but if you come on downstairs, itâll all stay up. These tunes all fit that notion, from Baby Ray who would like to keep on forgetting the parts of his drunken past he just canât remember, to the character in Buffalo Skinned by All the Kings Men. This tuneâs protagonist is taken from the folk tune Buffalo Skinners, Humpty Dumpty and a story about an Iraqi war amputee that I read about in the Parkersburg Newspaper. Oh, donât get me wrong, thereâs some happy and fun stuff in here too, at least I was smiling for the most part while singinâ them. TB

Over the last decade, Todd Burge, has played everything from Alternative Rock to Bluegrass, performing over 150 shows per year in venues as diverse as CBGBâs and the Kennedy Center. Burge is a regular guest on Public Radioâs Mountain Stage and has been called the âdean of WV songwriters, the best we haveâ, by the showâs host, Larry Groce. Todd recently recorded Telephone Girl by Blind Alfred Reed, for a tribute compilation (Always Lift Him Up â Proper American) that benefits the WV Music Hall of Fame and includes Kathy Mattea, Ray Benson, Marty Stuart, Connie Smith, Tim and Mollie OâBrien, Little Jimmy Dickens and More. Burge also hosts his own radio show and podcast, Songwriter Night with Todd Burge (www.songwriternight.com).

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