Artist description Burke Ingraffia is a singer/songwriter/guitarist extrordinaire!!!

Music Style Sweet southern-fried lyricist and guitarist

Musical Influences Memory and her daughters, Homer, Hesiod, King David and his boy Solomon, Aristophanes, a bunch of Midaevil monks, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Professor Longhair, Bob Dylan, George Porter Jr., John Gorka, David Wilcox, Martin ton

Similar Artists Paul Simon, James Taylor, Mose Allison, David Wilcox, Danny Barker, Tracy Chapman

Artist History Since the beginnings of the recording industry, jazz has been the folk music of the South. Names like Danny Barker, Mose Allison, and Randy Newman come to mind. Burke Ingraffia will very likely be another added to this list. A poet, a scholar, and a guitarist who can hold his own, Burke Ingraffia completes the whole package with his clear and beautiful voice. As a child growing up in the 70’s in New Orleans, Burke was known to sing along to his favorite radio songs like The Meters’ “They All Ask’d For You” and Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.” Later in life, Burke became saturated with the lyrical masterpieces of East Coast songwriters including David Wilcox, John Gorka, and Patty Larkin. In the early 90’s, Burke studied guitar under two of New Orleans’ best, Hank Mackie and Steve Masakowski, as well as learning classical and jazz theory for two years in the jazz studies program at the University of New Orleans. In 1995, Burke would be invited to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to compete in the semi-finals of the Telluride Troubadour songwriting competition. Later, at the end of that decade, after recording Burke Ingraffia (BTI 9501) and Throwing Shadows at the Sun (BTI 9803) Burke would emerge back onto the local New Orleans music scene with a Master’s degree from the University of Dallas in the disciplines of literature and theology. Good. is Burke Ingraffia’s third published CD. It is a buffet of styles, all neatly tied together by Burke’s singular vision and engaging wit. With the aid of producer and musician, Cale Pellick, Good. includes the swinging organ trio sound of “Undercover” and the bossa nova of “She’s Just a .” Burke shows two sides of his simplicity in the funk tune, “Everything is Wet” and the folk ballad “The Frame Maker.” The last song on the recording “Lazy Bones” is a closing tribute to his love of the rhythm and street-beat spookiness of New Orleans. Burke Ingraffia is a member of ASCAP and Folk Alliance

Group Members On the "Burke Ingraffia" (BTI 9501) recording: Burke Ingraffia, Paul Spencer - drums, Todd Goodson - Bass, Jamie Peck - Piano, Mike Ofca - lead guitar. On the "Throwing Shadows at the Sun" (BTI 9803) CD: Burke Ingraffia, Rob Parkkonen - drums, Brad Baudry - bass, Margo Haine - back. vocals, Christopher Perry - back. vocals

Instruments Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars

Albums Burke Ingraffia (BTI 9501), Throwing Shadows At The Sun (BTI 9803), and Good. (BTI 200105)

Press Reviews Bunny Matthews, Associate Editor, Offbeat Magazine Burke Ingraffia's CD isn't exactly Good. It's great. Since I know he's a Theology teacher, I might be reading a lot of subliminal sexual undercurrents into his compositions that he didn't intend (or maybe he subliminally, subconsciously did). "Undercover" strikes me as a celebration of sneaking around although Ingraffia's notes claim "This song is the result of late night cop show re-runs while simultaneously reading the biographies of Ss. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila." St. Teresa, for the non-Catholics in the audience, is the nun who encountered the Holy Spirit as a sexual orgasm. "Everything Is Wet," every bit as funky as the Meters (really!), I assumed was about vaginal secretions but lo and behold, it's a song about Noah's Ark. Paul Turnipseed's slide guitar on this cut is unlike any recorded instrument you've ever heard. In fact, it sounds like the collision of a heavily-panting St. Teresa, a very distant runaway freight train with cokehead Casey Jones at the controls and that no-good, well-hung Satan. I give it 666 stars.

Location New Orleans, LA - USA

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