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Jimmie Rodgers has been the subject of tribute albums before -- perhaps the most memorable is Merle Haggard's 1969 classic Same Train, a Different Time -- but Paul Burch's Meridian Rising is distinctly different: the singer/songwriter designed his 2016 album as "an imagined musical autobiography" of the country legend. By neither following the conventions of a traditional tribute album nor the contours of a biography, Burch is freed to be fanciful, dreaming up scenarios for Rodgers that may not strictly adhere to written history and allowing himself to tip a hat to Rodgers' jazz and blues contemporaries. Such elasticity lends Meridian Rising considerable life, letting Burch slide into hot dance music as easily as he cops to a blue yodel. He's playful but not at the expense of his subject: if anything, his blurring of fact, fiction, and styles allows Rodgers to not be seen as a museum piece, a figure that exists only in dusty history books. Burch's wry, witty compositions -- which find their match in his swinging band, its lineup shifting to accentuate the tones of the tunes -- bring the Singing Brakeman to a colorful, full-bodied life while also illustrating how he's peerless as an Americana craftsman: he's absorbed tradition so thoroughly, he knows it's a shame to exist solely in the past, so he makes albums as rich and delightful as this.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Jon Langford, FeaturedArtist - Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Paul Burch, Composer, MainArtist - Burch, Borrowed & Broke (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
Album review
Jimmie Rodgers has been the subject of tribute albums before -- perhaps the most memorable is Merle Haggard's 1969 classic Same Train, a Different Time -- but Paul Burch's Meridian Rising is distinctly different: the singer/songwriter designed his 2016 album as "an imagined musical autobiography" of the country legend. By neither following the conventions of a traditional tribute album nor the contours of a biography, Burch is freed to be fanciful, dreaming up scenarios for Rodgers that may not strictly adhere to written history and allowing himself to tip a hat to Rodgers' jazz and blues contemporaries. Such elasticity lends Meridian Rising considerable life, letting Burch slide into hot dance music as easily as he cops to a blue yodel. He's playful but not at the expense of his subject: if anything, his blurring of fact, fiction, and styles allows Rodgers to not be seen as a museum piece, a figure that exists only in dusty history books. Burch's wry, witty compositions -- which find their match in his swinging band, its lineup shifting to accentuate the tones of the tunes -- bring the Singing Brakeman to a colorful, full-bodied life while also illustrating how he's peerless as an Americana craftsman: he's absorbed tradition so thoroughly, he knows it's a shame to exist solely in the past, so he makes albums as rich and delightful as this.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:53
- Main artists: Paul Burch
- Composer: Paul Burch
- Label: Plowboy Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(C) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC (P) 2016 Plowboy Records, LLC
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