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Los Angeles-based singer Sam Burton has shared a new song and video for I Don?t Blame You, taken from his upcoming album Dear Departed (out 14 July via Partisan). Subtle fingerpicking drifts through time and space, ultimately resolving into a cinematic climax of strings, angelic backing vocals, and cymbal crashes ? anchored as always by Sam?s velvet-lined vocals. Throughout the song and video, Burton finds beauty in wandering, using the journey itself as a means of self-discovery and rebirth.

Burton says: ?This song was one that stuck out to me when I was writing the songs for this record. I felt like I found a hypnotic rhythm that transported me and it felt inspired by the landscape that I was staying in. I started to see imagery in my mind and I tried to capture the spirit of it. This song brings me back to that place in Northern California and makes me see the forest and the rivers. I think it?s so important for a writer to have an inner world they can go back to to reconnect with themselves and this song revealed that place to me.?

Dear Departed was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), and recorded at Wilson?s Topanga Canyon studio with some of the best studio players in LA. From the production to the performances to Burton?s core compositions, there?s a timelessness across its ten songs. Together with Wilson, Burton is able to achieve a sound that never descends into retro pastiche, but rather becomes an evocative echo, a dream of the past. Like Sam and his band are crammed onto the corner stage of a smoke-filled bar in a long-lost time. Recalling a modern-day Campbell, Orbison or Nilsson, the album showcases Burton?s inherent knack for mining pure Laurel Canyon AM gold. In scope, the music finds Burton using a far bigger canvas than on his acclaimed 2020 debut I Can Go With You, giving the emotions therein a new sense of urgency and intensity. I Don?t Blame You follows previous album highlights Long Way Around and Maria.

Burton has also confirmed a run of headline international dates. Burton will perform at End of the Road Festival in the UK later this summer, and will play a pair of hometown release shows in LA at Gold Diggers. In the last year Burton has toured with Loving, Jose Gonzalez, Weyes Blood and Indigo Sparke.

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Located on Oldham Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Gullivers is an iconic, lively and bustling bar with a long history dating all the way back to 1865.
Gullivers has had many different guises over the years. It was originally a Wilson’s house called The Albert Hotel, then The Grenadier before J.W. Lees brewery bought the pub in the 1970s. They renamed it Gullivers and it has existed in its current form to this day.
But there’s much more to Gullivers than just the busy bar; it also houses two distinct yet complementary live music and performance spaces; the upstairs Ballroom – a 100 capacity gig venue with a raised stage and the downstairs Lounge – an intimate, 40 capacity space ideal for acoustic or low-key performances.
As well as working with established and longstanding promoters from Manchester and beyond, Gullivers prides itself on being a welcoming, supportive space and a creative hub for the city’s grassroots artistic communities; with many now successful bands, artists, performers and promoters cutting their teeth within its walls.
This rare combination of space, location and ethos allows Gullivers to boast a busy calendar of live music, spoken word, comedy, theatre, film screenings, exhibitions and much more on almost every night of the week.

109 Oldham Street,

Manchester,

Greater Manchester,

England,

M4 1LW.

0161 839 4064