Paul Burch’s semi-fictional autobiography of Jimmie Rodgers isn’t nostalgic, it’s of a piece with the era it essays. His song cycle captures Rodgers’ times in a long-form album that is, in today’s per-track streaming world, its own throwback. Burch knits […]
Billed by Paul Burch as “an imagined autobiography” of legendary 1920s singer/songwriter Jimmie Rodgers, the marvelous Meridian Rising opens with a clarinet-spiced ode to the Singing Brakeman’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, and ends an hour later with the infectious “Back […]
