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Article: COOL DRY PLACE Burch, Minders deserve your appreciation
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- October 5, 2006
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With new music by either young, oft-overhyped darlings or stay-
the-course over-revered has-beens monopolizing space in blogs and
magazines these days, it's not much of a surprise that some of the
less flashy, hitting-their-stride songwriters have been banished to
the margins.
While Paul Burch and The Minders haven't broken any major ground
with their recent releases, they have created two of the most
enjoyable listens of 2006.
Burch might well be the best country music has to offer these
days, and he proves it again on "East to West." With a helping hand
from the likes of Mark Knopfler, Tim O'Brien, Kelly Hogan and the
good doctor, Ralph Stanley, Burch and his longtime backing band, The
WPA ...