Produced by Brad Cook and recorded at Sound Pure studio (in Durham, NC), Sacramento songwriter Tré Burt has today announced the release of his sophomore album, You, Yeah, You (reviewed here). The album is to be released on Oh Boy Records which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year having been founded by the late John Prine in 1981.
Like Prine, Burt is said to have a poet’s eye for detail, a surgeon’s sense of narrative precision, and a songwriters’ ability to transpose observation into affecting verse. We get a taste of that in action on his first album single ‘Sweet Misery’, a down to earth song that’s fringed with bright hope. A song of our times.
“There is something kinda beautiful about people who are experiencing tragedy in chorus,” Burt says. In this collective tragedy, he recognizes the bedrock to build something new, a deepened understanding of oneself in relation to one’s community, and a well of compassion. “Sweet Misery you can follow me down to the end of my path but you still gotta go through me”, Burt sings, reminding us that we, too, are the fighters who can hold our own in the ring against misery.
“To me, the chords sound melancholic but also has this really sweet and playful quality about it but also like that innocence is being hounded by some utterly miserable force of nature. When I was writing this song, I already knew what the chords would say if they could talk, so the lyrics reflect that. Sometimes songs can feel like it’s something hung up in a museum, meant to be observed behind a velvet rope from 10 feet away. My songs are as much yours as they are mine. I wanted to try and show that.” – Tré Burt On “Sweet Misery”
Tré Burt’s You, Yeah, You will be out on August 27th via Oh Boy Records and features Brad Cook on bass and synth, Phil Cook on keys and harmonica, Alex Farrar on lead guitar, Matt McCaughan (Bon Iver, Hiss Golden Messenger) on drums, percussions and modular synth, and features Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso) and Kelsey Waldon on background vocals. Burt will be on tour this year including dates with Nathaniel Rateliff and Shakey Graves this summer, and this fall with Katie Pruitt. The album was produced by Brad Cook and recorded at his home and Pure Sound studio in Durham, NC.
Pre-Save/Order the album here: https://orcd.co/youyeahyou