Jason Tyler Burton writes songs for rural people and rural communities. And he does so with humor and a deft-yet-delicate hand. He is careful with the places and people he writes about, telling complicated truths in straight forward folk story telling. His new album, Kentuckian, uses his upbringing in the bluegrass state as the setting for stories that deal in universal themes. The album has been called “working class country roots from gifted songwriter,” and “nothing short of an artistic masterpiece.”

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