Doug Burr: The Sickle & the Sheaves

I'm listening to The Sickle & the Sheaves this morning and had to post a link immediately. It's also availably digitally. This is a cd that stops me in my tracks every time I listen to it. Doug Burr is a friend of ours from Denton. Doug's a monster songwriter and this is what explicitly spiritual songwriting should always sound like. One of the songs on this cd won the International Songwriting Competition in the AAA/Roots/Americana category.

Description from the Paste Music listing:
"The Sickle & the Sheaves falls delicately somewhere between Blind Willie Johnson and Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball. Rugged and pristine, this is music that gets under your skin and goes straight for the heart like a shot of morphine. In the words of one fan, “This album delivers enough heartbreak to drive you to the edge of the bridge, and just enough hope to keep you from jumping.”"

Get this cd immediately.

Doug is also frontman of the Lonelies.