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Check out Rocco's new video, "Save Yourself" promoting 24's new movie, "Redemption", airing on Fox, Sunday, Nov. 23rd!!!
Rocco Deluca & the Burden will be releasing their new CD March 10th, 2009!
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING…
The echoes of Neil Young, Robert Plant, Jeff Buckley and Pearl Jam blend into
something unique, especially when performed live. Using the Dobro steel guitar
to cut deep on tracks such as “Soul,†“Dope†and the title song, the group packs
the heat and rocks aggression to work its way into your head and stay there.
– Rolling Stone
…wailing Robert Plant-style vocals to sliding Dobro guitar riffs -- as a
soulfully intense talent who fuses jazz, rock, blues and folk elements to potent
impact.
– Variety
Thankfully, his music is working its way to the masses via launch single
"Colorful," a fiery, appreciably organic display of his compelling, untamed
vocal stylings, lyrical vulnerability and innate skill with melody. Whether he
embraces it or not, the man is a star. "Colorful" is currently working across
triple-A radio, but DeLuca and band the Burden have all the markings of the
mainstream big time. Not to be missed.
- Billboard
DeLuca and the Burden's music is a passionate, muscular mix of swampy blues
and stomping rock. They're not derivative, but their sound has elements of Dave
Matthews Band, Tim Buckley and U2, with hints of Thom Yorke and Lindsey
Buckingham in DeLuca's keening voice.
- LA Times
…the young man who strums a dobro and sings like a 67-year-old black man from
the Mississippi delta…
- Hits Magazine
Rocco DeLuca and The Burden may be the best band you’ve never heard of
-Synthesis Magazine
Though DeLuca’s years as a singer/songwriter are clearly evident, the record
is nevertheless musically cohesive, flowing from track to track with a taste of
blues here, a taste of edgy guitar rock there, and no small amount of heartfelt
balladry rounding it all out. But through it all, its Rocco DeLuca’s
personality- his voice, his lyrics and his guitar playing- that shine through
and give the band limitless potential.
– Synthesis Magazine
Named Rising Artist “New To Qâ€
– Q Magazine (July ’06)
…a highly original talent. A promising debut…
-UNCUT
“Armed with a steel dobro resonator guitar and an unwavering passion for
music, Rocco DeLuca and his band The Burden offer an intensely cathartic,
emotionally charged take on blues.â€
– NPR
Merging Appalachian folk with Southern blues rock into some sweet form of
alternative pop-rock, Rocco DeLuca and his band manage to craft a fine album
that’ll have rock-n-roll kids broiling in their seats.
– Smother
DeLuca’s use of the Dobro steel guitar give his songs a distinctive and rich
foundation evident from the first chords of album opener Gift. DeLuca’s
background extends beyond the boundaries of blues though and tracks such as the
jubilant singalong of Colorful, the country-tinged Mystified, and the six-string
workouts of Swing Low and Gravity have drawn comparisons with the likes of Jeff
Buckley, Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin.
- CD Times
…he has a wickedly passionate and polished debut record that superbly blends
blues, punk, metal, folk and – no kidding- Ravi Shankar into something as fresh
and compelling as it is old-school.
– OC Weekly
…a rootsy combination of steel guitar, bass, drums and percussion.
- MTV.com
