Pale White Dove

Description

Pale White Dove is the fifth full-length album by the American singer and songwriter Doug Burr, released on Velvet Blue Music in April 2015. The album landed at No 2 on North Texas’ Independent Music Radio KXT’s Best of 2015 local albums list as chosen by listeners, and was also included in the Best of 2015 Albums list of Texas Music Magazine.

Doug Burr does believe in reclamation, redemption, restoration. It all accords with his credo as a Christian, a reality he has no interest in either obscuring or marketing. In that sense, he is cut from the same black cloth as Johnny Cash. And like Cash, he eschews stylistic borders. Burr moves freely between country, folk and pop. A lazier writer might call him “Americana” and, unwittingly, be more on point. Burr is an American musician, thinker, composer and lyricist, shaking hands with both the spirits of Appalachia and the ghosts of the Mississippi Delta.

Now Doug Burr returns with a new album, Pale White Dove. While his last record Devastator dabbled with heavier sounds, Pale White Dove swings the sledgehammer with abandon. Burr sounds like a man whose noted patience is worn to a raw bundle of nerves. The album’s aggression is cut with beautiful country tunes «Never Gonna Be Young Again». But the soul of the album is the electrified tracks like «White Night – Black Light», «Revolution Son Blues», and «I See Satan Fall Like Lightning». The later titled after the René Girard book, the tune is soaked in Southern Gothic and delivered in a fevered prophecy. The song, and much of the rest of the album, recounts a world tangled in its own violent scapegoating, hopeless save for supernatural intervention. For this reason, Pale White Dove is apt for this age, marred as it is by violence in word and deed. Just one more cogent volume in Burr’s patient vocation of storytelling and truth-digging for the people.

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CD tracklist:

01. White Night – Black Light – 3:06
02. Never Gonna Be Young Again – 2:57
03. Revolution Son Blues – 3:48
04. I Love to Hate You – 3:43
05. Ghost On Water – 3:34
06. From the City of the Bride – 4:43
07. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning – 4:00
08. When the Arrow Hits the Sparrow – 5:20
09. No Human Voice – 4:52
10. Ghost On Water / Red Skies – 3:26
11. The Last Confederate Widow – 5:18

Note: A Pale White Dove Deluxe Edition was as well released in December 2015.

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CREDITS. Produced by Britton Beisenherz, Doug Burr, Dave Sims, Glen Farris Squibb. Engineered by Britton Beisenherz. Mixed by Britton Beisenherz at Ramble Creek Studio, Austin, TX. Mastered by Jim Wilson at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO. All songs written by Doug Burr.

Doug Burr (Guitars, Harmonica, Vocals), Amanda Leggett (Harmony Vocals), Britton Beisenherz (Reed Organ, misc. Keys, Percussion, Guitars, String Arrangements), Glenn Farris Squibb (Bass, Moog Synth, Piano, Rhodes, Organ, Banjo), Dave Sims (Drums, Guitars, Percussion, Harmony Vocal).

Cover art by Brandon Lesley. Photography by Jon Collins and Jason Upshaw. Photo Editing by Brandon Lesley. Rabbit pulled from hat by J. Cloud. Cat. # VBM 161