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The Burnt Pines isn't your typical Stetson hat-wearing Americana band that can't wait to share a bill with Margo Price or Sierra Ferrell. In fact, this
American Back Roads blog spotlights unique songwriting OK, it's time for another roundup of cool recent releases â five CDs and (for Stones fans) a movie. The CDs' shared strength is unique writing â each in its own way. Author: By Bruce Sylvester OK, it's time for another roundup of cool recent releases – five CDs and (for Stones fans) a movie. The CDs' shared strength is unique writing – each in its own way. The Internet having made the recording process global, one of my earlier new-release roundups spoke of bluesy Sunnysiders' intercontinental The Bridges. Now here's q...
Singer-songwriter-player-of-many-instruments Dinty Child has a new single out. “Incident at the Border” tells the true tale of a musician, a waywardly tossed Frisbee, and a resulting broken window at the Border Café in Harvard Square. It was recorded by Child and some friends in 2018 as part of a batch of 17 songs, 11 of which ended up on his 2020 album “Lucky Ones.” But it didn’t make the final cut, and is now seeing the light of day by its lonesome. Child has carved out a colorful career on the local music scene since getting his first guitar about a half-century ago while growin...
The Burnt Pines Reviewed by Donald Teplyske The Burnt Pines comfortably fit at the smoother edge always-increasing Americana big tent. With a harmonic vocal style reminiscent of the late-'60s/early-'70s (think Simon & Garfunkel, Donovan) their music is polished in an understated, mostly-acoustic-sounding way. So very appealing to experienced ears. "Heavy and Young" falls into the loping rhythm of "Mother and Child Reunion," while the following "Song for Rose" contains the sparse, hollow effect of some of that era's Laurel Canyon productions. An album without filler, listeners may make compari...
Musicians in a band, but on different continents? It sounds like a solution dictated by the pandemic but in fact it came together in 2018. To put it another way, the Proclaimers had a minor hit with their anthem “(I Would Walk) 500 Miles,” but The Burnt Pines’ challenge is crafting a theme song based on the 3,187 miles separating their principal members, who are about equally divided between Boston and Lisbon, Portugal. Guitarist Aaron Flanders is an Illinois native who came to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music where he met Miguel Sa’ Pessoa, a classically trained pianist ...