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Living in a Burning House Image
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85

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  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Florida blues guitarist was produced by Tom Hambridge.
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  • Record Label: Alligator Records
  • Genre(s): Blues, Blues-Rock, Electric Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues, Contemporary Blues, Modern Blues
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 3, 2021
    90
    Birchwood is still making rowdy brand of blues, seemingly unlikely to suit up or slow down any time soon. [Apr 2021, p.87]
  2. Mar 3, 2021
    80
    There’s no pretension. It comes across here as well as it does in his live performances.
  3. Mar 3, 2021
    80
    He openly draws from history but situates his original music expansively in the here and now; his many stylistic referents combine in new ways to offer a stubbornly holistic, emotionally resonant, and visionary approach.
  4. 80
    Living in a Burning House‘s 13 songs pay tribute to his influences without sounding like any of them.