Jonathan Burks Comes to Circle A This Sunday Armed With New Songs POSTED:: January 29, 2010
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Jonathan Burks is a man with a lust for life, but his equally lusty, down and dirty country drinkin’ songs contain this energy not just because of what they’re fueled by. Burks’ energy lies solidly in his playful take on life, his lyrics full of colorful local characters and locales, revolving around a social-centric, thrifty and innovative lifestyle with a bit of a punk undertone to add edge to the twang.
Burks, who released his first album with a backing band in 2008 [Brown Paper Bag] decided that his next release could be no other way. Getting set to release his followup, Loudmouth Soup [a euphemism for beer] Burks employed his band once again to back him up in his high-spirited revelry: Joe Pescio and Luther Paul [Wooden Robot], Nick Westfahl [Bangkok Taxi Pimps] and Dan Boyle [China Pig] add their talents to Burks tunes about working in the service industry, living the bohemian lifestyle and playing his brand of honky tonk to a crowd of hardcore stalwarts on “Take This Genre and Shove It”. Burks, immeresed in both the folk and punk scenes in Milwaukee will have none of a divisive mindset. “You can take this genre and shove it / I don’t want no part of no fashionable scene / why dwell on the differences / it’s all just music to me / it’s cool to be a punk rocker and to make fun of the hippies / but they seem the same to me / fashion devours every honest movement and churns out mediocrity”. Burks’ speaks in strong terms of his own culture unwittingly creating a new branch of an age-old genre that has always told it like it is.
Catch up on Burks’ latest material this Sunday, January 31st, at Circle A (932 E. Chambers) for an 8 p.m. show. Catch music from Loudmouth Soup at http://jonathanburks.bandcamp.com/.