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Burch takes Down Home stage

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Americana wizard Paul Burch takes the stage at the Down Home, 300 W. Main St., on Saturday, Oct. 7.

His latest album is “Still Your Man,” with his band, WPA Ballclub, released in August on Ramseur Records. Showtime is 9 p.m. and admission is $12.

“ ‘Still Your Man’ is Burch’s most compelling collection of songs yet. It would be easy to take this 14-song set track by track, but it would be an injustice in a sense because it would deny the listener the pleasure. There are many twists and turns in this collection, little touches that add so much delight and surprise in the experience of hearing it. It couldn’t have arrived at any other time in music history.” — All Music

“Like all of his work with the stellar WPA Ballclub, Paul Burch’s music is steeped in the glory days of Memphis and Nashville without sounding like some preserved Smithsonian Folkways relic. Meaning that if you’ve got the narrative goods, which the Nashville native has in spades the old-school country-blues and soul warhorses are just as fecund songwriting territory as they ever were. Burch’s new one, ‘Still Your Man,’ is out on local imprint Ramseur Records and, for my money, trumps everything on it.” — Creative Loafing

The Boston Herald called the album “an infectious blend of classic honky-tonk and ’50s-era rhythm and blues. It’s imbued with an uncanny melodic sense and crack musicianship. Compared to the shiny, cookie-cutter pop churned out by Nashville’s Music Row these days, Burch’s sound is a blast of authentic country soul.”

“After more than a decade in the game, Burch is still our man,” wrote the Hurst Review, “and he’s only now hitting his peak. Burch remains a true original, and the triumphant title of his seventh album, ‘Still Your Man,’ serves as a fine self-review. His new collection delivers on a decade’s worth of promise — an album that tops anything he’s ever done without veering too far from the rest of his canon. The songs sound impossibly timeless, and their simplicity is profound. It’s a thoroughly modern record made without regard for what being ‘modern’ might actually mean.”

For more information, visit www.downhome.com or call 929-9822.

For more on Burch, visit www.myspace.com/paulburch or www.paulburch.com.