Grammy Nominee Paul Burch Is In The Studio With His Band Recording An Album Of Buddy Holly Songs!

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Paul Burch Official Website) GRAMMY nominee Paul Burch is in the studio with his band, the WPA Ballclub, recording an album of Buddy Holly songs in honor of Holly's 75th birthday. Well...All Right: Songs of Buddy Holly, will be available this summer on vinyl and cd.

"Whenever we travel, we think of Holly and the Crickets as the sound we want to bring to the stage," said Burch. "He was rock, he was country, he was r&b; but most of all, he connected." Several of the band's longtime friends have agreed to contribute including multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin (Elvis Costello, Jack White), Tristen Gaspadarek, and Exene Cervenka, lead singer of X.

"We went in the studio just to have fun and warm up the tape machine and knocked out half an album in one afternoon," said Burch. The group is recording live at Pan American Sound in Nashville to 1" 8 track tape. Engineer Mike Poole (Robert Plant Band of Joy, Buddy Miller) is slated to mix. "Our take is not nostalgic but it does draw on a lot of Holly's ideas. I think people will dig it. There's something really special going on with this one."

PB has previously worked with Ralph Stanley, Mark Knopfler, Lambchop, Vic Chesnutt, Ryan Adams, and the GRAMMY nominated comeback album by the late Charlie Louvin. Burch's last album, Still Your Man, was produced with bassist Dennis Crouch (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' Raising Sand) and was hailed by Uncut (5-star review), NPR (Song of the Day, "Honey Blue") and Bob Edwards.

Here's a cool little sneak peak of the group in the studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgC2Zqhc2c&feature=player_embedded