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Don​’​t Water My Whiskey Down 

from Your Reflection Will Kill You by Todd Burge

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    Thank you for picking up my TWO new albums! One was recorded a few weeks ago and the other a few decades ago. Simply put, the new one is an acoustic album, and the old one is a rock album. This is a long story and I’m hoping you’ll follow me online or better yet, go to one of my shows so I can tell you more about it, but for now…..

    Todd Burge (1986 The First Album) was recorded while I was still attending West Virginia University back in the mid-80s. I got signed to Hardway Records in California, they paid for me to record an album, the deal fell through and I didn’t own the recordings. As a result, it was never released. It bothered me for years as I loved the album. I was kindly sent the master tapes last year (31 years later!) by the owner of Hardway Records, Randall Arlett. Listening to what the 20-year-old me wrote and sang about is interesting and fun for me now. It’s almost like an out of the body and brain experience. Even back then I was writing personal songs as well as character based songs like Cavewoman, which is about a mouth breathing sexist. I’m proud of the 20-year-old me. This is a rock record and to me it represents a sonic segue between my two bands The Larries, and the much heavier 63 Eyes, who still play a bit to this day.

    The new album, Your Reflection Will Kill You is an all acoustic album that lyrically looks back on some facts and fiction that have brought me to where I am today. It is live, except for two vocal overdubs. To me, this is a concept recording. A “37-minute-long song” and I’d love for it to be listened to in that way. For years, I’ve admired the superb musicality of Ryan Kennedy and John Inghram, who are both well-known electric players from WV, but on occasion I would hear them playing acoustic, and it got me to dreaming about what we three might sound like together. Don Dixon came to my home studio with his mobile gear and captured it perfectly. He makes it all comfortable and real. Every musical action I have made or taken in over the last three decades was poured into this latest recording and now, I hand it over to you. Thank you again for supporting what I love to do.
    Sincerely,
    Todd 9/20/18 

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    TWO ALBUMS in one double CD package.
    1986 The First Album
    and
    Your Reflection Will Kill You (2018)

    Todd Burge (1986 The First Album) was recorded while I was still attending West Virginia University back in the mid-80s. I got signed to Hardway Records in California, they paid for me to record an album, the deal fell through and I didn’t own the recordings. As a result, it was never released. It bothered me for years as I loved the album. I was kindly sent the master tapes last year (31 years later!) by the owner of Hardway Records, Randall Arlett. Listening to what the 20-year-old me wrote and sang about is interesting and fun for me now. It’s almost like an out of the body and brain experience. Even back then I was writing personal songs as well as character based songs like Cavewoman, which is about a mouth breathing sexist. I’m proud of the 20-year-old me. This is a rock record and to me it represents a sonic segue between my two bands The Larries, and the much heavier 63 Eyes, who still play a bit to this day.

    The new album, Your Reflection Will Kill You is an all acoustic album that lyrically looks back on some facts and fiction that have brought me to where I am today. It is live, except for two vocal overdubs. To me, this is a concept recording. A “37-minute-long song” and I’d love for it to be listened to in that way. For years, I’ve admired the superb musicality of Ryan Kennedy and John Inghram, who are both well-known electric players from WV, but on occasion I would hear them playing acoustic, and it got me to dreaming about what we three might sound like together. Don Dixon came to my home studio with his mobile gear and captured it perfectly. He makes it all comfortable and real. Every musical action I have made or taken in over the last three decades was poured into this latest recording and now, I hand it over to you. Thank you again for supporting what I love to do.
    Sincerely,
    Todd 9/20/18 

    Includes unlimited streaming of Your Reflection Will Kill You via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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lyrics

Don’t Water My Whiskey Down
Todd Burge

I’ve told my kids the story

Of my family history

Now I’ll never get back
What they once thought of me

Up to now it’s all
 been made up make believe

That I’ve told so many times

I’ve started to believe (it too)


So don’t, water my whiskey down

Freedom is a hoax

It rode here on a boat

Like a huddled-up mass

That screwed up the winning pass

In the championship game

Where no one knows your name

But aren’t we all to blame

As we all called the play

So, don’t, water my whiskey down


If whiskey was a river

And I was a duck

I’d sink down to the bottom

And never come back up

I’d swim with the fishes 

Way too wasted to speak

And tell them all my secrets
Let my soul spring a leak

So, don’t, water my whiskey down

Way up in the hills

Where I come from

There’s fire in the water

That’ll keep you feelin’ dumb

Stop all the thinkin’

And keep ya feelin’ sick

Place you in a stink

That you’ll never think straight in again…

Don't water my whiskey down

By Todd Burge
(C)Bunj Jam BMI

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from Your Reflection Will Kill You, released November 16, 2018
Todd Burge – Vocals, steel string guitar

John Inghram – Upright bass and backing vocals

Ryan Kennedy – Nylon string guitar

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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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