Originally from the coast of California, Peter Burg lives in the mountains of Colorado. Influenced by the beach sound and pop megalopolis culture of LA and juxtaposed with the pure simplicity and uncomplicated life style of a rather isolated mountain town, he has been bending and twisting country and blues of Southern Colorado into his own brand of songstering. He had grown up in the blues of suburbia, with all the trappings, baggage, and luxuries of suburban dysfunctional family unit. He spent several years negotiating the Hollywood music jungle and then ventured off, leaving behind the smog, traffic, crowds, and mega-stress, to try his luck with his own family unit.
After many years of performing cover material in numerous bands and the unsatisfying results of not doing his own songs, he started his own band, Peter Burg & Blue Suburban. Peter’s songs became an exorcising of internal demons. Songs that documented the reconstructing and working out his new life. The proverbially snake shedding it’s skin, it became for him a celebration of surviving the vicissitudes that the world can manifest.
His blues…a Colorado blues, (Roots Music), a blues that encompasses elements of traditional blues forms, rock-a-billy, country swing, and rock’n roll, with the occasional surf twang, and folk elements. This became the vehicle through which his frustration with relationships, employment, income, living in a societal maze, all while trying to hold on to the thin thread of being an artist, is vented.
This thread reaches back and ties Peter to other artists he has had the opportunity to play with such as Mondell Lowell, Hollywood Fats, Katey Sagal, and those artist he had the chance to open for such as, Doug Kirshaw, Chris Smithers, Diamond Rio, Gary Primich, Buddy Whittington, Erica Brown, Dan Treanor and Frankie Lee, and Sonny Landreth.
Currently, Peter has embarked on a solo venture with his latest release, Dizzy Light.
Using the blues as a stepping stone, Peter deals with his own frailties in the search concerning spiritual awakening, faith, and moral consequence. Blues is not exclusive here. From his musical history he has drawn snippets from jug and string bands, rural country flavors, simple gospel, and primitive beats and brought them together into what is undoubtedly Peter’s best recorded work to date. Dizzy Light initially began as a purely acoustic project but rapidly grew in complexity with the addition of further instrumentation as period or cultural ambiance was needed. As Peter drew on several friends to add their own talents, he remarked “The studio is a canvass on which an idea can be worked out using a store house of colors to indulge one’s imagination. The trick is not to get too carried away and lose the edge, focus and direction.” The goal here was to capture a feeling often missed by large commercial studios and labels with their high production quotas.
Dizzy Light features Peter on acoustic and electric guitar, bass, mandolin, harmonica, dulcimer, recorder, tenor banjo, and percussion with the sounds of Rick Terlep on slide guitar, Bruce Paulman on harmonica, David Gouge on accordion, James Schafer on violin, and Danny Weston on drums. Dizzy Light was produced by Richard M. Holmes and Peter Burg and was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Richard M. Holmes at Amplimedia Production Studios, Pueblo, CO
