Literate, eclectic songs; a haunting blues/jazz sensibility mixed with a DIY aesthetic and a dose of warped humor.

14 MP3 Songs in this album (48:15) !
Related styles: ROCK: Lo-Fi, BLUES: Jazzy Blues

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âFrankly these are the freshest most surprising love songs of my generation.â
-David Shapiro, National Book Award-nominated poet and musician


âIâve listened carefully to Richard Burginâs skillful, melancholy and contagious songs. His songs are the real thing.â
-Ned Rorem, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer


âRichard Burgin is a strikingly gifted song writer and composer. Certain of his songs are cries from the heart that lodge powerfully in the listener like the memory of our most heart-rending experiences.â
-Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award-winning novelist


"What makes Richard Burgin's music so powerful for me is its tension between a suave sophistication and a nervous urgency. By turns a lyricism buoys the work with swanky melodies that recall Stephen Sondheim. But then, an edginess intrudes with lyrics so emotionally raw they startle you with their revelations of loneliness and frustrated desire--psychological terrain well known to fans of Burgin's fiction. Packed with complexity, these lovely songs beg for presentation as serious musical theater."
-Andrew Weinstein, noted critic and writer