Sam Burton - Dear Departed

Released 14th July 2023

SK says: 'Where Burton's Tompkins Square debut I Can Go With Youhad the starkly beautiful quality of a lost Gene Clark record, Jonathan Wilson's lush production gives his sophomore record the epic sweep of Jimmy Webb's work with Glen Campbell.'

'Dear Departed, the second album from Sam Burton, arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, Burton basically started over. Theres a freedom in leaving everything behind, and Burton embarked on a wandering phase. He went and stayed at a friends family home in a rural region further north in California, where he holed up in a cabin and helped the grandmother farm to earn his keep. He crashed with friends all around Los Angeles, until he found himself a new gig and a new apartment of his own. Along the way, he was writing songs.

Dear Departed was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), and recorded at