“Long Way Around” is the second single taken from Sam Burton’s new album Dear Departed, which will be released on July 14, 2023 by Partisan Records.
“A little while ago, I had two days booked in the studio to mix a couple of songs. I ended up getting all of the mixing done the first day and decided to try to record a new song on the second day. I wrote “Long Way Around” the morning of the second day. It’s a song about missed opportunities and the passing of time. The noble failure.” – said Sam Burton
Dear Departed, the second album from Burton, arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, the Los Angeles-based singer basically started over. He temporarily abandoned the life he’d built in LA to live in Utah where he grew up, moving again to hole up in a cabin on a rural northern California farm. Sam describes the album as being wracked with pain and loss, and he spends much of the time saying goodbye to a version of himself.
With production from Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), Burton achieves a sound that never descends into retro pastiche, but rather becomes an evocative echo, a dream of the past. Like Sam and his band are crammed onto the corner stage of a smoke-filled bar in a long-lost time. Exemplified best by lead single “Long Way Around,” smoldering melodies are met again and again with ripples of piano and swells of orchestration – headlined by Sam’s evocative, velvet-lined vocals.
Dear Departed is available for pre-order at the following link: HERE
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