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Burch's groovin and intriguing tribute to Buddy Holly keeps the original spirit with fresh twists, like the Cajun groove in "Rave On"

Newsday
Out of all the artists celebrating the late legend, perhaps it's Paul Burch & WPA Ballclub’s “Words of Love: Songs of Buddy Holly” that carries Holly’s torch best. Burch – one of Americana’s most sought-after collaborators – recaptures Holly’s mix of tenderness and strutting on “Not Fade Away,” combining acoustic jangle with plugged-in rockabilly. On the stripped-back “Everyday,” Burch’s sweet, simple vocals take center stage, while “Peggy Sue” is all about the chiming rock guitar riffs and driving drums.

American Songwriter
The less-is-more philosophy that has worked well for Burch on his own music, finds the sweet spot in Holly’s tunes. The loose yet focused approach is far closer to what Holly originally intended than the somewhat overproduced superstar tributes that lose much of the heart, soul and sweet simplicity of Holly’s gems that Burch displays in his versions.

American Project
Words of Love: Songs of Buddy Holly just might be the lost bridge between the Americana of yesterday and the continuation of the genre today. Such a lofty target, crafting a personal and resonating reimagining of an untouchable American song library, would have sent others running. Paul Burch, pierced the bull right on the eye.

NPR Song of the Day 'Honey Blue'
Thank goodness for Paul Burch's fumbling fingers: The latter-day honky-tonk artist accidentally erased the finished take of his song "Honey Blue," so he put an earlier version on his new album, Still Your Man. As a result, the track has an earthy, impromptu feel, as if a bunch of talented musicians just wandered into a studio — in this case, a converted Nashville garage — and began jamming.

Hurst Review
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.

Philadelphia Inquirer
A vivid, loose and immediate album and his most soulful work yet.

New York Times Podcast with Ben Sisario

Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy performance & interview feature

Bob Edwards Interview with PB for PRI and XM

All Music
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.

Creative Loafing:
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.

Fretboard Journal Podcast PB talks to Fretboard Journal about guitars, recording, and songwriting

UNCUT (UK) ***** (5 Stars!)
UNCUT says: "The songwriting--disarming, guileless, evocative--is so faultless you wish Sam Cooke would rise from the grave to cover Burch's love song Fallin' "