Burlap to Cashmere
Genre: Folk/Acoustic/Americana, Pop/Rock
Members: Steven DeLopoulos (vocals, guitar), John Philippidis (guitar, vocals, percussion), Michael Ernest (guitar, bass, vocals, percussion), Theordore "Teddy" Pagano (drums), Scott Barksdale (percussion, vocals), Roby Guarnera (bass)
For fans of: Dave Matthews Band, Jars of Clay, Gypsy Kings, Toad the Wet Sprocket
Label: Squint Entertainment
Discography
 Anybody Out There? (1998)
Live at the Bitter End - EP (1997)
If you like this artist, try …
Salvador, Jars of Clay, Five O'Clock People
Biography (courtesy of Squint Entertainment)
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Imagine you're sitting at a little table nursing the beverage of your choice in some dive in Greenwich Village, New York—the kind of place that makes you feel like a mole going blind underground. The club owner takes the mic and mumbles, "Please welcome A&M recording artists blah blah blah … ," but you don't pay any more attention than you would to an airline attendant's preflight speech about oxygen masks and flotation devices. You're just here to unwind after a week of work-related stress. Then the music kicks in. It has a kind of indefinable, riveting, world-beat energy, and the next thing you know your eyes are fixed on the motion onstage and you're caught up in this textured wall of sound and in the exuberant chemistry that's somehow materialized before you in the form of seven kids from Brooklyn crammed into one tiny space playing a kind of music that five minutes ago you didn't even know existed.
Their full-length debut, Anybody Out There?, covers a stylistic range from modern pop to Mediterranean stomp with some element of the one inevitably thrown into the other. Exploring a diversity of subjects including love, war, salvation, divorce, the struggle of flesh against spirit, and the death of friends, Burlap seeks to chronicle the emotions of life, without ever opting for easy answers. Instead they show a willingness to walk every step of life's journey with deliberation, rejoicing when it is the time to rejoice, and mourning when it is the season to mourn.
A standout trio of carefully placed songs serves to establish the context for the bulk of the project's subject matter. The buoyant opener to Anybody Out There?, Digee Dime, is a joyful expression of hope. Another track, Treasures In Heaven, stands in the center of the project as a call to continually reexamine motives and return to those things that are eternally important. Finally the rootsy, closing song, Mansions, asks that, even in the struggles of this present life, heaven would dwell within us.
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