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Doug Burr

Home: Denton, Texas

New Record Coming April 2010
Album Title, Artwork, Free Mp3 March 16.

"On Promenade" - Best Area Album Release of the 00's - Dallas Observer
Each listen to On Promenade has the potential to leave you in a state of visceral reaction. Over the course of 11 songs, singer-songwriter Doug Burr wades with distinctive voice, guitar and various instruments between love, loss, simple beauty and historical disaster. But, despite the weight of the topic, Burr's monumental achievement is somehow developing each song into a perfectly dynamic composition from instrument to harmony without ever overworking a theme, a word or a bridge. A cohesive album from start to finish, On Promenade is oddly hard to assign genre or reference-it is its own very emotional victory.

The Shawl - #7 Best Local Album of the Year - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

#19 - The Best 40 Local Songs in Dallas Music, 2009 - Dallas Observer - "The Righteous Will Rejoice"

Doug Burr's flavor of backwoods roots and smart pop hooks has been described as conjuring Lucinda Williams on a revival high. After years of wood-shedding his songwriting in Denton, Texas, Burr emerged from a local favorite to touring with Son Volt and quietly winning people over receiving international press. He gets the Daniel Lanois meets Johnny Cash, Bazan/Bon Iver, Costello with Waits/Kozelek thing sometimes, but it’s obvious Burr clearly has his own unique sound. One blogger put it best, “If Doug Burr is not your favorite singer-songwriter, it's because you have not heard of him yet.”

Doug Burr talks about the new record with MyDentonMusic.com

A Look Into The Making of Doug Burr's New Record

“Topeka” - New Demo for Independent Film

“The Shawl” NPR Interview Podcast

The Shawl - Tehuacana Sessions Photo Slideshow by Brandon Lesley

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Press:

Doug Burr's music was featured on NBC in their DFW 2020 newscast - A round table discussion about the future of arts and culture in a changing DFW. Check it out here.

Doug Burr delivers enough heartbreak to drive you to the edge of the bridge, and just enough hope to keep you from jumping. Rugged and pristine, this is music that gets under your skin and goes straight for the heart like a shot of morphine. - Real Roots Cafe, Holland

Top “Four to Watch" band. Exquisitely detailed, slow and deliberate, his songs have as much in common with the literature of Eudora Welty and Cormac McCarthy as with the work of the Americana dimmerati to whom he is often, and somewhat shortsightedly, compared...- Paste Magazine

Burr evokes distinctive voices such as Wilco's Jeff Tweedy or Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek. These warm, inviting compositions are effortlessly beautiful. - FW Star-Telegram

Burr shares an intrinsic knowledge of song dynamics with the likes of Jeff Tweedy, and has a voice that tugs at the heart strings. Brilliant! - Americana UK

...The question is, do Hebrew Psalms really hold up as musical poetry in literally-translated English? Burr's attempt is fairly convincing. The phrasing and meter never sound forced. Musically, Burr seems to tip-toe into the Psalms, cautiously, reverently. The songs move at a shuffling monk's pace, giving Burr time to carefully handle each word. Instrumentally spare, The Shawl is clearly constructed to give emphasis to the words themselves, so it is Doug Burr's voice that is always carried above the various guitars and banjos and atmospheric hum. Burr sings alone without bravado in the calm manner of the old country sound, which is consistent with The Shawl's reverent austerity. The one exception, and most engaging moment of the album, occurs on "The Righteous Will Rejoice," which ends with the grandeur of a full gospel choir.... - Rock & Review

“Next Big Thing”, “Best Solo Act” - Dallas Morning News QUICK Awards 2008

Channeling Tom Waits (and a little Ryan Adams), Doug Burr brings a classic sense of storytelling to his almost-gravelly songs - Lullabyes.net

2008 Dallas Observer Music Awards: Best Song - Slow Southern Home

You won't hear an earthier, more gripping record this year. - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Dallas' Best Music" - Dallas Observer

Best Local Album of 2007 - Denton Record Chronicle

"Graniteville" airs on Gossip Girl, "Bonfire of the Vanity" episode on November 10, 2008.

"Should've Known" airs primetime on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, August 8, 2008.

Doug Burr is a singer-songwriter in the Springsteen style. There is clearly something in the water in Denton - that town has produced two of the best records of the past 12 months. - contactmusic.com

Outstanding music. A new favorite. - Plugged!

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