FORMAT: 180 gram black audiophile vinyl (limited edition of 300); reverse board print jacket with color lyric insert.
LP includes digital download of remastered audio, plus bonus track “Thought I Saw A Rose”, recorded during the “On Promenade” sessions and never before released.
The album has been remastered for vinyl and digital from original audio by Jim Wilson (Airshow, Boulder, CO).
Pressed by Hand Drawn Pressing in Dallas, TX.

PRESS RELEASE:
Oklahoma City-based independent record label Clerestory AV will reissue Texas songwriter Doug Burr’s remarkable 2007 record “On Promenade” on vinyl for the first time April 17.

Originally released on California label Velvet Blue Music (Richard Swift, Starflyer 59), the record garnered international praise at its release, including a Paste Magazine feature that called the album “exquisitely detailed” and likened Burr’s songwriting to the literature of Eudora Welty and Cormac McCarthy.

Doug Burr is a case study in invoking the profound disbelief that arises when a well-loved artist doesn’t garner the wider, career-advancing recognition his fans believe he deserves. In North Texas, he is undoubtedly acclaimed: For the 10-year anniversary of “On Promenade,” the Dallas Observer published a piece on how the record has influenced many other musicians from the region. Amidst the accolades for this record and his other works before and after, however, Burr chose to forgo extensive touring and the years-long, unpredictable grind of building and courting a larger audience in order to be near his family.

He has remained a prolific writer and occasional performer, cutting new records with regularity, including a 2018 single called “First Son of Connecticut” on Clerestory AV, released as a split 7” record with Oklahoma band Beau Jennings & the Tigers. Still, the resonance of “On Promenade” has lingered.

“It was one of those records that was so instantly impactful the first time I heard it that I felt like I'd known it forever,” says Chris Stellman, owner of Clerestory AV. “I've followed his music closely since, but that one has always been special and is one that I still share with people often. I'm always surprised more people don't know it—it's kind of iconic in North Texas.”

For “On Promenade,” Burr draws deftly from the playbook of the American South—hard work, humility with a twinge of discontent, an underlying mysticism steeped in religion. He sings with the urgency and plaintiveness of likeminded contemporaries Damien Jurado and David Bazan and composes with the folklore fluency of a writer’s writer. The focused lyrical stories of “On Promenade” are, as a result, emblematic of the greater human condition while ringing deeply personal.

“I’m getting on better than ever with my work,” Burr sings on “How Can the Lark (My Dear Theo).” “Oh preferential torment, to love even unreturned.”

— Becky Carman