Review Fix Exclusive: Dallas Burrow Talks ‘Southern Wind’ And More

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Dallas Burrow, who discusses his origin in music and signature sound.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Dallas Burrow: My grandmother taught me some piano when I was about 5 years old. My dad, who is a songwriter himself, taught me some guitar when I was about 10 years old, and from then on I always wrote and played songs.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Burrow: Songwriting is an ever-evolving process, but most often it starts with a lyric or a guitar or piano part, and once a few pieces start to fall into place, you put the rest together like a puzzle, until you have a fully formed idea. 

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Burrow: Inspiration can come from anywhere, relationships, society, travel, trouble, hardship, love, loss, gain, joy pain, anything. Once inspiration strikes, then the songs start to take shape.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Burrow: I’m a folksinger who has been influenced by country, blues, and rocknroll, a combination that is described these days as Americana. My music is influenced by everything I hear, but some of the greats including Townes van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Wliie Nelson, Ray Charles, Dr. John, Robert Johnson, John Prine, and John Lennon to name a few.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Burrow: Performing live is always different, because you’ve got the audience to play to and to play off of. The studio is great because you get to really focus on the performance and then build the orchestration around the song. Live with a band you are sort of doing the same thing, but you ahve less control over all the variables, there is a lot more potential for human error, but also a lot of room for spontaneity and magic to happen in the moment. 

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Burrow: My latest single, “Southern Wind,” was inspired by a big Texas thunderstorm a couple of years ago, when my son, probably only a year and half old or so at the time came running down the hallway and crawled in bed between his mother and me. So after holding the ones I loved close through the night and through that storm, I woke up the next day and wrote the song.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2019?

Burrow: To travel and play as much as possible, all while promoting the new album, hopefully getting some good radio play, and spending as much time with my family as possible when I’m not on the road. 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Burrow: Just looking to continue playing bigger and better shows and meeting new audiences and hopefully converting people into fans of the music, so that I can continue to do what I love.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Burrow: I am very blessed to have the gift of music and to be able to share it with others, as well as to have a loving and supportive family who believe in me and my dreams. Couldn’t ask for anything more.