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<p>We listen to dozens of artists a day, hundreds a week, and John Burnette is an artist that has truly stood out to us. His song &#8220;N.Y.C. Babe&#8221; still sits near the top of our Chill Mood <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2TjHjmWasfEZvaslHe9P0t?si=UspFaTeNRn2ZfSC2bq5qUA">Spotify</a> playlist since it was added in June. We know all of the words and it just doesn&#8217;t get old. Another song off of the very same record that &#8220;N.Y.C. Babe&#8221; comes from, is &#8220;Mercy Mercy.&#8221; This song is a bluesy vocal piece that is sung completely a capella. The style choice demands that the listener pays complete attention to the lyrical content. The song tells a story in a manor that feels like more vintage times. The song stands well enough on it&#8217;s own but it also feels like a solid break during the musical album. It takes courage to sing without instrumentation!</p>
<p>Give Parlor One a chance. It&#8217;s filled with acoustic guitars, folky vocals, and lyrics that resonate with humanity.</p>
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<h5><span style="color:#339966;">Whether it&#8217;s after the fact or not, Mercy Mercy came from reading ee cummings &#8220;anyone lived in a pretty how town&#8221; in a hospital waiting room. A murder ballad came on shuffle while they were carting some gaunt looking elderly patients through the hallway and I remember thinking &#8220;I hope someone loves me enough someday to put me out of my misery&#8221;</span></h5>
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<h5><span style="color:#339966;">It&#8217;s admittedly super dark and maybe a little taxing. There had been some instrumentation behind the vocals at one point, but in the studio we were trying to get rid of a dog bark in the background of the track and muted all tracks but the vocal. After hearing it a cappella, it was hard to add anything else to it; so we left it as is. </span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#339966;">&#8211; John Burnette<br />
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<p>John Burnette is based in Nashville, TN and originally hails from Mountain View, Arkansas. Find out more: <a href="https://www.johnburnettemusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">johnburnettemusic.com </a></p>
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<p>Written by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ryancassata/">Ryan Cassata</a></p>