Ken Yates
Buy tickets: http://burdockto.com/shows/?show546
$8 in advance, $10 at the door
Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm
// Ken Yates
Since first planting roots within the Canadian music scene in 2011, Ken Yates has steadily grown a reputation as one of the countrys brightest singer/songwriters. His sound offers the complete packageunforgettable melodies, emotionally charged storytelling, and top-notch guitar chopsall gloriously displayed on Yates new album, Huntsville. Produced by Jim Bryson Weakerthans, Kathleen Edwards, Yates second full-length effort is a major stylistic step forward, with its 11 tracks capturing his artistic evolution amid extensive touring over the past three years. Keep Your Head Down, with its subtle, driving groove, opens the album like a train pulling out at dawn, with vast, open vistas lying ahead. Those come into focus on other key tracks such as Once More To The Lake, Roll Me On Home and The Best Part Of Leaving. Yet, everywhere on the album, echoes of the Canadian songwriting tradition, from Gordon Lightfoot to Bruce Cockburn to Ron Sexsmith, are apparent, proving that with Huntsville, Ken Yates is ready to join that exalted company. A native of London, Ontario a few hours drive south of the actual Huntsville, Yates studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. His first release, The Backseat EP, came out in 2011, followed by his full-length debut, twenty-three in 2013. One track on that album caught the ear of fellow Berklee alum John Mayer, who commented in a lengthy blog post, Ken Yates wrote a song called I Dont Wanna Fall In Love. This song moved me when I first heard it, and it still does today.
