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Charlie Burton Songs (add music)No songs available for this artist.Charlie Burton BioCharlie Burton's latest is One Mans' Trash, a retrospective of his 20+ years in the recording business. In reviewing it, Blue Suede News said, "Burton is basically straight ahead rock'n'roll oriented, and as one might expect from the era of these recordings, displays some rock influences as well - even some obnoxious distorted guitar on "Breathe For Me Presley" (which could have been a Mojo Nixon track easily). But Burton is a good writer of sometimes off-center songs (titles like "Rabies Shot", "Succubus", "Roadkill"), and is a roots rock hero in the mid-west. His stuff also ranges from country rock to even one Beatles sounding track, and the most recent stuff is kinda tongue-in-cheek country."
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That was a long-winded explanation of what Charlie Burton is doing in MusicAustin's country section. But, by golly, a person's got to take into account his rocking days. On his web site, you can even see a photo of him kissing Elvis' star on the sidewalk in Hollywood. We are declaring him to be a rocking country rocker! Charlie Burton is from Lincoln, Nebraska. He won a transistor radio as a kid and discovered the wonderful world of AM music. As he described it, "The night brought the "clear channel" signals of the Grand Ole Opry on WSM on the weekend, XERF - with Wolfman Jack playing James Brown and Howlin' Wolf - from Mexico, and Rock and Roll from WLS in Chicago, KOMA in Oklahoma City, KOIL in Omaha, and KLMS in Lincoln. Charlie also discovers the writings of Robert Benchley, Don Marquis, James Thurber, and Ogden Nash, which he absorbs, spongelike." The remnants of those youthful influences can still be found in his songwriting. The Nashville Tennessean reviewed his SXSW show this way: "Playing at the Broken Spoke dance hall, Burton shook, stuttered and staggered his way through a set of country-inflected rock songs while earnest two-steppers attempted to dance across an open floor. At one point, Burton removed his microphone stand from the stage, planted himself in the middle of the dance floor and sang a treatise on hair growth entitled 'I Wonder, Is Propecia Right For Me?'" Charlie Burton began his career in music by writing about it as Rolling Stone's country critic. By 1980, he had a band and a first LP, Is That Charlie Burton - Or What? He continued releasing LPs, until 1991, when his first CD, Green Cheese, was released. His band from those albums dissolved when Charlie decided to move to Austin, where he formed the Texas Twelve Steppers. In 1997, Charlie and the Texas Twelve Steppers release their first full length CD, Rustic Fixer-Upper. |
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Charlie Burton Album Review:
Great group, lousy CD at 2005-01-06 If youve somehow discovered later-day rockabilly great charlie Burton, be warned: this captures his live show on a very bad night and is painful to listen to, mainly because it COULD have been so good. Not even close to the quality of his other recordings. If you havent discovered Burton and are somehow reading this, check out Green Cheese, if you can find it, or the One Mans Trash compilation. Old fashioned rock nroll, with a dash of country and a big dose of humor. Anybody who can write the line Im lookin for a girl looking for a guy whos sadder but wiser has something going, but then he rhymes it with Orel Hershiser. True genius. The song is called Major Turnoff. Buy one of the other CDs, and leave this one alone. Charlie Burton Album Review: Great material, poor performance at 1998-11-14 Several years ago, talented Austin artist Charlie Burton and his former band, the Hiccups, were house band at the Liftticket Lounge in Omaha. They had recorded several studio albums and CDs, releasing them on an independent label, but none of them caught the bands incredible onstage energy. Eight years ago the Liftticket decided to close its doors for the last time, the band decided to break up. But not before taking advantage of that last weekend to record the live album that always should have been. Unfortunately this did not turn out to be that album. I was there both nights this recording was made and bought this CD on its first release. And I witnessed what might have been two of Burtons worst performances ever. Maybe it was the stress of not ever having another chance to do a live CD, maybe it was the end of an era and Burton did not care. Burton was wise to include his best material from roughly a decade with his band. And the recording does have its moments. Whistle Bait is a fine showcase for Phil Shoemakers awesome guitar talent. Burton includes some of his wittiest songwriting in numbers like Bum Ticker and Without My Woman. Whether the listener will enjoy this wit is debatable, as Burtons vocals are often unintelligible--a major flaw in a songwriter/story teller. Shoemaker is outstading, the rest of the band good, Charlies guitar playing is sometimes clumsy. When the band was on , they would give some of the best live performances one could hope for. Too bad they werent on that night. I can recommend this album only because it includes some fine songs that cannot be found elsewhere these days. Too bad their vinyl studio recordings on the Albums Is That Charlie Burton or What?, Dont Fight the Band that Needs You, or the Lou Whitney produced I Heard That arent being re-released on CD. They would be much better buys. |
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Charlie Burton Album Review:
brilliant career at 2000-08-02 This disc spans the entire career or Charlie from his native Nebraska recordings to the Austin recordings. Clever songwriting is Charlies nitch. The early stuff is in the rock/rockabilly vein progressing into a more seudo country flair in the latter work still keeping a nice edge. At times the work seems almost tongue in cheek. This is a must have for roots rock fans. |
