SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: DALLAS BURROW – BLOOD BROTHERS

Dallas Burrow
Blood Brothers
Soundly Music

Now if any images you see of Dallas Burrow indicate you are in the roots/Americana land, they might distract non-believers from the fact that Burrow and his latest album Blood Brothers are a true example of the genre as it stands now but also the fact that Burrow is actually an excellent singer songwriter and a storyteller all amply showcased in all of the country/soul tinged songs here.

To the converted, the story behind the album’s title might offer the clue where Burrow is coming from and where he (rightly picked up his inspiration – It was a night in Nashville in the early 70s, when Burrow’s father, Mike Burrow, was hosting Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, and Townes Van Zandt at a pub he ran with his siblings on Elliston Place near the old Exit/In Nashville. After a late night shutting down the bar, the foursome hit an after party, where Van Zandt insisted they all become blood brothers to ensure they’d be forever cosmically linked.

And it seems that cosmic link is there in the music of the younger Burrow, who on the evidence of this album is a musical force to be reckoned with.

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