Birdie Busch

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Trap Door

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Released: Jan 1, 2010

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Trap Door
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Hometown Boredom
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General Info

Genre: Alternative / Blues / Roots Music
Location Philly, Please select your region, Un
Profile Views: 246991
Last Login: 7/25/2011
Member Since 10/10/2005
Website birdiebusch.blogspot.com and birdiebuschmusic.com
Record Label Bar/None Records and Monotask Music
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Birdie Busch’s atmospheric folk, which often aches with strains of country-blues, jumps out with a rockabilly swagger and blushes with whimsical pretty-girl-telling-you-a-secret lilt that’s all her own, and doesn’t really fit any category or genre. It’s weird and winding: she sings about magic, luck, the universe, the human heart speeding off on dangerous missions like Inspector Gadget. An intimate partnership with long time band mates has assured that her records are cohesive and remarkably mature, a dreamy Americana too warm to be made in this decade but too grounded and aware to be made anytime else. .. Coming out of what could be called a veritable roots-rock renaissance that has put Philadelphia back at the top of the list of America’s music capitals, she joins other talented locals and partners in crime in creating a tight-knit community that seeks to make great music, inspire people and see what happens. .. Critics from the Village Voice to American Songwriter have admiringly found her of kindred spirit to everyone from Syd Barrett to Eudora Welty and All Music Guide exclaimed that she is one of the “most affecting altos around”. .. Birdie’s newest release, Everyone Will Take You In, is a group of songs inspired by her hometown of Philadelphia. The project is the first release for the new label Be Frank Records, a Philadelphia label specializing in vinyl releases and digital availabilities. .. “Fred Knittel of Be Frank Records has been a fan of ours since discovering our last record Pattern of Saturn. We share so much of the same joy and excitement for music past, present, and future that this project took a naturally serendipitous route from there” says Birdie. .. The 45 will offer two songs. “Joey” is Birdie’s observations of the ethnic rifts in South Philly “…the hoagie’s a taco, oh Joey don’t act so macho…”. The b-side is her own interpretation of the Philly street corner group the Soul Survivors hit, “City of Brotherly Love”. Both of these songs as well as two other originals that cover culturally shifting neighborhoods and characters will be available digitally as part of the story that is presented in the intricate packaging for the single. .. It’s a broad spectrum but Birdie has always believed in our multitudes and found inspiration in gray areas and multi-faceted emotions. The trick is how she seems to encapsulate it, in what feels like very buoyant and effortless attempts. .. It’s music that grows with repeated listens and shows you different things in different moments, with words that can strike too close to home and melodies that never wear out. ..For press inquiries and bookings please contact: Biff Kennedy of Charterhouse Music Group at kennedy@biffco.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
Birdie Busch plays with a band, a rotating makeup of a whole lot of generous folks that can't not play music... ..Birdie Busch - the fool ..Todd Erk - bass ..Ross Bellenoit a.k.a. rolling thunder - guitar and lap steel ..Devin Greenwood - madman keys/producer/other capabilities ..Chris Giraldi - drum pa pum pum. ..Craig Hendrix-drums as well and an organ from the 70's....
Influences
..influenced by...unexpected lap steels that drop into our lives, the ringing of the nervous system,the vibraphone on "Five Leaves Left",bicycles,uncalibrated analog metronomes,Chuck Berry,feeling merry,apples fallen far and close...... ......
Sounds Like
.. ........Everyone Will Take You In 2010 Be Frank Records .. ...... Pattern of Saturn 2009 Monotask Music .. ......Penny Arcade 2007 Bar None Records .. ...... The Ways We Try 2006 Bar None Records ..AMERICAN SONGWRITER- According to the geriatric tastemakers over at Travel & Leisure magazine, Philadelphia has the largest number of ugly people per capita of any city in the U.S. Apparently, no one told local girl Birdie Busch, who manages to chirp her way through the entirety of her very compelling Penny Arcade (Bar None) as if she were singer/songwriter in residence at Xanadu University. This brand of optimism might become annoying if not couched in the wry insinuations of Busch’s strikingly evolved lyrics, which share far more in common with Eudora Welty than Richard Simmons. A bewitching combination, to be sure. ..NO DEPRESSION-Thirteen songs that display Busch's ear for the gnomic. And just to proves she's a rocker, she covers Steve Miller, and it works. ..ALL MUSIC GUIDE-Its earnest delivery makes it one of the most affecting altos around. "My heart, well, it's worn on the outside," Busch sings during the upbeat "Hold Ya." "And if I see something good, I'm gonna show ya; and if I hear something sweet, I'm gonna tell ya." That's a raison d'être shared by the world's best singer/songwriters, and Penny Arcade sets Busch down the right path to join their ranks. .. VILLAGE VOICE - The Ways We Try is one of the slyest neo-folky records in recent memory, its blues loopy and eccentric, and its simple melodies often as inspired as say, SydBarrett's. ..NASHVILLE SCENE- On her debut, The Ways We Try, Emily “Birdie” Busch marries the folkie aesthetic with something altogether more rhythmic, felt and astringent. The record stands as one of the year’s strongest. She displays the born songwriter’s structural knack and flair for the unobtrusive hook. It’s an endlessly charming and magical record. ..ALL MUSIC GUIDE -From the gentle swing of "Cup" to the bluesy Randy Newman-esque closer "Room Above the City," The Ways We Try is so subtle in its execution that it may get lost among the bevy of louder, lamer, and more opulent acts of 2006, but if the business were fair, and the cream really did rise to the top, there would be one less employee doing the serving. 4 STARS/5 ..HARP - Combining Gillian Welch's congregational hush and folk reverence with Sara Hickman's sly sidelong observational humor and pop ebullience, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Emily "Birdie" Busch distinguishes herself with a quietly expansive sound and a quirky, intimate songwriting style on her debut.