TRE BURT

Description

Tre Burt is a Sacramento, California-based singer-songwriter with a literary pen, roots aesthetic, and lo-fi approach. He acquired his detailed poetic eye and narrative accuracy of timeless melodies by touring the world on his guitar, and busking in the streets of San Francisco.

His folk traditionalism, inherited from the pre-electric Dylan of the 60s with whom he is often compared, caught the attention of John Prine himself, who decided to sign him to his label Oh Boy Records in the fall of 2019, a few months before his death. He was able to see the first album of his pupil published (after a collection of demos from 2017), the superlative 'Caught It From The Rye', released on the last day of January 2020. We all know what that fateful year brought us, something that however it did not cloud the evidence;

Tre Burt had become one of the most important new American compositional voices. Prine left his earthly body in April of that year, and Burt moved on determined to pick up the baton from his mentor. He raised his voice in "Under The Devil's Knee", an exemplary and epic protest song denouncing the murder of George Floyd that triggered the Black Lives Matters global movement. And now he returns with 'You, Yeah, You', again on the label bequeathed by Prine, twelve new songs full of fictional characters; heroes, villains, those in need of redemption or in search of salvation.

Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Nathaniel Rateliff), Burt finds a new voice, expanding on his fighting talents, incorruptible in the face of fear and fatigue.