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Most Requested 1989​-​2000

by Todd Burge

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    Digital Download only. These are songs that I continue to get requests for and still enjoy playing. All except for the "bonus" Mountain Stage set (three songs at the end) are tunes that I wrote before 2000. They've changed form a bit through the years, so I thought I'd sit down one day and re-record them as I remember them. It was fun. I hope you enjoy and thanks so much for your support through the years. It has meant the world to me and now, it means the same for my growing family! Sincerely, Todd (11-3-2007)

    A very special thanks to Larry Groce and the Mountain Stage folks.

    The Good Dog, Hip about Time and My Roots Recorded November, 19 2006 and used by permission of Mountain Stage. Produced by Andy Ridenour and Larry Groce. Engineered by Francis Fisher. Mountain Stage is a production of WV Public Broadcasting. www.mountainstage.org.

    Michael Lipton-Guitar
    Billy Matheny-Banjo and Mandolin
    Julie Adams - Backing Vocals
    Laurel Dennie - Backing Vocals
    Ammed Soloman - Drums
    Steve Hill - Bass

    Cover Art by Tory Gallery
    Photography by John Bright (cover)
    Perry Kirk and Marcia Toman - additional

    Recorded at Bunj Jam Studios, Parkersburg WV
    Oct 2007

    All Songs by Todd Burge
    (C)1989-2006 Bunj Jam - BMI
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My Apartment 02:44
My Apartment © & (p) 1990 Bunj Jam Music-BMI My apartment has an old couch My apartment has a chair My apartment has an old coat Hangin' on a coat hanger over there There's a mailbox that I open It gets deeper and darker everyday I think I'll have this place rented out I'll hide inside Then somebody else can come and stay They'll pay the rent And stay with me In their apartment My apartment has this TV tray Starin' at me the same old way It' hold my paper plates the same old way While I watch these morons play Wheel of fortune everyday What an unfortunate game [chorus & suck and blow] My apartment has this thing I turn on And it play old Larry King I hear him say some similar things About some not so similar things Some fat guys pushing a book And he's telling me how to cook Or some good looking guy I can't even see Is telling me how to buy his look Come stay with me And pay the rent In your apartment
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Whole Lotta Choice (Lost In Cleveland) C & p 1997 Bunj Jam-BMI Three strikes and you’re out Two strikes and you’re a little bit down One strike might send a king off to play golf That same strike might send a pauper A much lessor offer But what if one strike went right to your pretty daughter’s face? She’d have to hide that mark when she wanted to go anyplace Way back when things were a bit more fair The only care in her world Was the perfect curl in her hair And how the boys would stare Must have had a friend Must have had all kinds of friends Once had a voice And a whole lotta choice Now I was leaving a show one night in Cleveland Ohio My right hand was fishing around my car’s interior for a map And the next thing you know Instead of going down 90 South I was destined to go up and get a drink Out of a lake at the upper end of the state Now I could’ve been driving just about anyplace There was paint rotting off the houses and holes in the streets There were beer cans along the curb And about every other block I could see The bright green Squeaky clean sign that read “BP” Like a light watching over me So I drove up to get directions and a big bag of potato chips But the door was locked and the speaker was broken So we had to read each other’s lips And man I thought I’d thanked that lady kindly But just about then she flipped me the bird And when I looked down in that sliding metal box I saw a small container of paper clips She didn’t see a single word Must have had a friend Must have had all kinds of friends Once had a voice And a whole lotta choice Now I don’t know about the land of the free But I can see the home of the brave It’s behind bullet proof plastic At a BP Station in Cleveland So I got in my car with no more sense of direction Than when I arrived at that service-less station It was just about then that I met my escort Came in the form of a police car, the finest in Ohio He said what’s a white West Virginia boy doing Driving a Geo, at 1 AM in the Cleveland ghetto I filled him in on my show and everything else I thought he’d like to know I said, I’m trying to connect up with I-90 South He said, Follow me boy, I’ll direct you out And man I thought I’d seen it all When I saw a lady sleeping in the street While I was cranking up my heat And tuned into a re-broadcast of Rush Limbaugh Must have had a friend Must have had all kinds of friend Once had a voice Must have made that her choice
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Blast Town 04:40
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released November 3, 2007

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Todd Burge Parkersburg

If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more

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