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Seed by Todd Burge
Burge’s fifteenth studio album is an ongoing and open collaboration with his audience and friends.
“My new album is called Seed, and my intention is to kick start creation in others. To see where the breeze might take my seeds, and discover what might bloom, in soil that I'm not so familiar with. My work is done here and I’m passing it on to others, so we can all have a hand in what is next.”
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SEED
As I prepared to release my 15th solo album, and Lisa and I get closer to becoming “empty nesters”, I believe I’ve landed on a creative way to celebrate this time in our lives. I hope this album finds us creating something together. It’s intended as a collaboration between you and me. Something that will spread, germinate, grow, flower, then go to seed, and start again. Hopefully, it’s a jumping off point for you. A kickstart for your muse. Whether you are a songwriter, poet, painter, videographer, photographer, potter, dancer, sound engineer etc. I’ve made the lyrics available to you, for you to manipulate, change and separate at will. The songs and melodies are available to sample. The audio tracks are available for overdubs and remixing. Grab a line or verse and write your own song or paint your own picture or write your own poem, or melody. Maybe you’ll choose to cover my song and make it your own. Let’s see where the Seed takes us, and later, let’s release our collaboration and we’ll call it,
FLOWER!
Where Did This Seed Come From?
These songs seemed to be “handed to me” like little gifts from various sources. A few were challenges from The Song Colony*, an open group of writers who meet each month in Marietta Ohio at The Stage Door. At the end of each session, we spontaneously pick one word to use as a jumping off point for a song. We call it the “Quick and Dirty”. The assignment is to spend one hour or less on a song, and the goal is to write whatever comes to mind, without the pressure of feeling it should be precious, or a “masterpiece”. We are simply working the songwriting muscle, and as a result, happy accidents occasionally occur. Hundreds of songs have come out of this group using this method.
Other songs from Seed are playful challenges from friends. Pig came from my late friend Mark Scohy saying to me, “there aren’t enough songs about bacon”. Weed and Keep Your Clover Bloomin’ came to me while I was doing yard work, and a couple others came from words I saw in a book called 300 Drawing Prompts.
There’s no wrong or right way to approach this project. No rules, no limits, no pressure.
I hope you will join us. Some have already started!
Thank you!
Todd
All rights will be released for you to use all parts of this work.
Credits:
Recorded August 2023 at Bunj Jam Studio – Parkersburg WV
Mixed by Sean Sullivan – Nashville TN
Mastered by Justin Perkins - Mystery Room Mastering
©2023 T.Burge Bunj Jam BMI
*Made possible by the Ohio Arts Council & Peoples Bank Theatre and the Oakland Foundation.
Todd Burge – Bio Blurb
Employing wry humor, dexterous guitar work and drawing on a rich variety of life experiences, Todd Burge has established himself as one of West Virginia's most prolific singer/songwriters.
His musical journey has traveled a diverse landscape, from his roots in Alternative Rock with 63 Eyes to his explorations in Contemporary Folk. Burge has graced stages at an array of venues, from iconic locations like CBGB's and The Country Music Hall of Fame to the prestigious stages of The Kennedy Center, alongside countless music venues and theaters.
Burge has been a repeat guest on various nationally syndicated programs including Mountain Stage Radio (NPR) and Songs at the Center (PBS).
West Virginia’s most prolific and successful roots singer-songwriter has taken a decidedly different tack for his 15th solo album. In a conversation he told me he wants others to view the songs as seeds that “kickstart creation in others. To see where the breeze might take them and discover what might bloom, in soil that I’m not so familiar with.” That takes nothing away from the quality of these 11 songs, which are also among his most personal. I hear them as meditations on the nature of existence, songs of an examined life. Be it weeds in the lawn or an asteroid hundreds of millions miles away, they are all part of a light that he sings about in the ironically titled “Moth Man” — always seeking the brightest light, yet a bit apprehensive of what he might discover.
Amos Perrine – No Depression
Todd Burge...he's a really good singer songwriter who chose not to leave West Virginia and has built an impressive career. He was on the show (Mountain Stage Radio – NPR) last Sunday.
He has an album he just released, called "Seed", and the idea is that his audience gets to take the songs and use them as a jumping off point to create their own spinoffs....everything from remixing it, messing with the tracks, recording a different version of a song, or taking a line and writing a completely new song, or poem or making a painting or drawing.
It's a very cool idea. He hopes to gather all the pieces people make and release a follow up project called "Flower"....so cool!
Kathy Mattea – Grammy Winner & Host of Mountain Stage
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