Burnover
by Greg Freeman
- Type: Album
- Released: August 22, 2025
- Label: Canvasback, Transgressive
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:03
- Community rating: 3.48/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Burnover', Greg Freeman expands his alternative country and indie rock sound through ambitious, densely layered arrangements co-produced with Benny Yurco. The album melds energetic, fuzzed-out rock with twangy, ambling country, utilizing a wide instrumental palette that includes saxophones, pedal steel, strings, and various keyboards. Freeman's character-driven songwriting draws thematic inspiration from the historical "burned-over district" of New York, exploring tales of hope, fear, and alienation within the American landscape.
Genres
Descriptors: guitar-driven, lo-fi, literate, storytelling, slacker
Tracklist
- Point and Shoot (03:05)
- Salesman (03:42)
- Rome, New York (03:17)
- Gallic Shrug (04:50)
- Burnover (06:04)
- Gulch (02:32)
- Curtain (06:39)
- Gone (Can Mean a Lot of Things) (02:32)
- Sawmill (03:26)
- Wolf Pine (08:56)
Credits
- Greg Freeman - vocals, guitar, co-production, violin, harmonica, concertina, melodica, mellotron, synthesizer, chimes, glockenspiel
- Benny Yurco - production, engineering, bass guitar, choir vocals, wurlitzer, slide guitar
- Cam Gilmour - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, electric upright bass
- Zack James - drums, percussion, tambourine, shaker, acoustic guitar
- Sam Atallah - piano, organ, wurlitzer, trumpet
- Lily Seabird - background vocals, bass guitar, choir vocals
- Ben Rodgers - pedal steel guitar
- Scott Maynard - drums
- Francie Medosch - choir vocals
- Jon Cox - choir vocals
- Pat Coyle - background vocals
- Seth Kauffman - strings
- Merce Lemon - background vocals
- Patrick Sargent - saxophone
- Scott Daniel - violin
- Adrian Olsen - mixing, additional recording
- Josh Bonati - mastering