Music Bloggers get a lot of email and that’s the truth. Most are hard sell from bands or promo people with photos, quotes, tour dates, reviews and proclamations of greatness. Here’s just a tiny sampling of artists that sent out overblown pr missives from the last couple of days: Paul Weller, the National, Riley Etheridge, Sander van Doorns, Dynamic Truths, etc, etc, etc. So it’s refreshing to get an email that simply says:
hey there
here’s a copy of my new album: http://jonathanburks.bandcamp.com/
cheers!!
Loudmouth Soup is a record mostly about drinking (of course it’s no surprise then that Jonathan Burks is a resident of Milwaukee). Style wise you get a mix of Billy Bragg, Lou Reed, and Merle Haggard. There’s a little honky-tonk rapping thown in as well. It works. The record is available as a free download here.
Bonus:
P.S. I don’t want my mention of Adam Carroll and Michael O’Connor’s record Hard Times to be a one and done situation. But I don’t think I have permission to post another track. So if you missed my review check it out here. More reviews here and here. You can also stream the whole record here.
Take my word on it and buy it here. You won’t be disappointed. Here’s “Bernadine”: