Famous Patient | Charles Burst

If Glen Campbell and Nicolette Larsen got together (instead of Glen hooking up with that coke head, Tanya Tucker) and had a music baby it’d be The Famous Patient, New York City troubadour, Charles Burst’s second release on Ernest Jenning Records.

Burst’s sound evokes 70s AM Gold style when tender yet thoughtful lyrics were accompanied by spar arrangements that allowed space for the listener to hear the singer’s breathe pause before gliding across the next phrase; when James Taylor, Jackson Brown and Carly Simon had three-ways of the musical (and non-musical) variety creating vaguely bluesy, spirited paeans to life’s mundane intimacies, elevating them to something more.

Recorded in all analog in the woods of Connecticut last summer, The Famous Patient, pays homage to those singer/songwriters in an unintentional manner, stripping away the histrionic production associated with the sound, ensuring every instrument carve out it’s own space creating cozy textures upon which he croons about the mentally and emotionally disturbed.

I caught up with him before he left his Brooklyn apartment for a day at the beach.

Listen the our meanderings:

Charles Burst on the Web:

Official Site | Myspace | Ernest Jenning Records

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