Sean Burns
Friday Oct 2 Doors 4:00 Show 5:30
Tickets $ 27.50 at Bozzini’s or call 604 792 0744 to reserve

So excited to have one of our original favourites back at Bozzini’s after way too long. Sean Burns last performed at Bozzini’s as we celebrated our 36’th Anniversary 8 years ago sharing the stage with heavy hitters Jim Byrnes & Gurf Morlix and he more than held his own. So, grab your tix & settle in for a night of country music (the real kind)

After paying tribute to Canada’s forgotten country music heroes on the 2023 covers album Lost Country—which Lonesome Highwaycalled “a contender for one of the best albums this year” and Country Music Peoplecalled “required listening”—Sean Burns is back with an all-original 10-song collection entitled Better Off In Time &Other Songs For The Dance Floor.
Recorded at Winnipeg’s No Fun Club with co-producers Skinny Dyck and Scott Franchuk, the album features Burns and his band, guitarist Chris Dunn,drummer Joanna Miller and pedal steel guitarist Dan Russell, along with several guests including legendary piano player FloydDomino (Asleep At The Wheel, Merle Haggard) who sent in his tracks from his home in Austin, Texas.For Burns, who also plays bass in Corb Lund’s Hurtin’ Albertans, making Better Off In Time…was in many ways a matter of taking care of unfinished business that was disrupted by the pandemic. Over half the songs were written in 2018 and 2019, while others came together over the past few years whenever Burns was inspired to write while on tour. In the end, the pieces fell into place once Burns had the right group of musicians and some time to record.
“I took the songs that were already mostly written and tuned them up,” he explains. “There were some lyrical and arrangement changes made, but it all came together pretty naturally. We hashed the songs out as a band, which culminated with a pair of gigs we’d booked that reallyserved as live rehearsal.We always try to capture a live feelwhen we record, but this album probably has more overdubs than other records I’ve made.
”Overall, fans of Sean’swork will be thrilled to hear him and the band continue to revitalize the sound of classic honky tonk, with song titles such as “When The Heartaches Call,” “I Do My Crying Alone” and “Lord, I Hate To See Myself This Way” speaking volumes. Indeed, the hard luck story told in the first single “Glory For Me” sets a high bar for the rest of Better Off In Time…, further accentuated by Sean’s soaring vocal performance.
“‘Glory For Me’ is one of three songs that Skinny and I co-wrote in that 2018-2019 period when we were touring together,” Sean says. “I think all the new songs touch on a similar theme of the protagonist being down and out, or at best, the underdog. Maybe we were seeing some of ourselves in these characters as we were out there grinding on the road to little or no fanfare.
”Such detail iscommon practice for Sean Burns, whose encyclopedicknowledgeof country music has been establishedthrough his long-running radio show and early thematic solo albums. While there certainly are some lyrical connections on Better Off In Time…, Sean says that if there is a theme to the album, it’s more in the overall sound.
“I fell deeper and deeper down the well of Texas dancehall country music made by artists like Johnny Bush and Amber Digby, as well as the earlier era of Ray Price and Faron Young. I was spinning a lot of that music on my radio program andwas immersed in the stylethose bands play down there. I could have gone to Texas to make this album, but I had assembled a good band at home so I thoughtwe could put our own spin on that Texas dancehall sound.
”As with all of Sean Burns’ work, it’s notnecessary to be familiar with the theme he’s presenting. The songs stand on their own as not only a reminder of what country once was, but what it will always be, the music that maintains our unbreakable human bonds.

What they’re saying…

“Sean Burns joins the growing number of under the radar independent artists who clearly love to listen to and play classic country; albeit from their own point of view with original songs and well chosen covers. Top notch music for all occasions – if those occasions demand a cool band building a head of steam on some hot songs.” – LONESOME HIGHWAY

“If modern country is no longer country, and alt-country is the new country, then where can possibly find new “old country”? The answer to to this is Sean Burns and Lost Country, who are exactly what I’ve been holding out for.” GREAT DARK WONDER

“Sean Burns is a hugely talented Canadian singer-songwriter who plays a brand of country music from way out on the left of the mainstream.” American Roots U.K.

“He puts his heart into every record and carries high the flag of honky-tonk that can now only be found in independent productions” – PLANET COUNTRY

“Burns has the raw yet smooth country vocals that pull together an album of this caliber, and the steel guitar sounds on the album are a reminder of what most modern country is missing.” – CANADIAN BEATS

“Burns captures the grittiness of troubadour life and creates a style that hits home to fans of Canadiana, Americana, Folk, Country, and Blues music world-wide.” – THE COUNTRY NOTE