When one listens to Burd Early's music what first springs to mind is certainly not New York's crowded skyline. However that's exactly where James Angelo's, the real person behind the Burd Early project, is from. The young composer takes a plunge in North America's music roots & absorbs the country's aesthetic & literary legacy to such an extent that you could almost imagine him calmly rocking in his rocking chair on a farm porch with his hat pulled down to his eyebrows strumming his guitar.