This Trip Kevin Burt

• 1 You Gone 05:00
• 2 Round & Around 04:48
• 3 Ancestors Tears 03:30
• 4 Big Love 02:08
• 5 This Trip 04:47
• 6 Daddy’s Smile 02:46
• 7 Home Goin' Time 03:02
• 8 I’ll Stand Up 04:32
• 9 You Can’t Hold Me Down 01:44
• 10 Because I Love You 03:02
• 11 Your Smile 04:23
• Total Runtime 39:42

Info for This Trip

Kevin Burt delivers a powerful and deeply human statement with This Trip, his fourth studio album and a standout release for Gulf Coast Records. Recorded in Waterloo, Iowa and produced by Michael Cutsforth, the album blends iconic blues storytelling with soulful, lived-in delivery, performed with clarity, conviction, and heart. Burt - long celebrated for his ability to captivate audiences with a raw, acoustic roots style and winner of the International Blues Challenge for solo artist - returns to the core of what makes his music resonate so deeply.

After releasing three studio albums with full-band arraignments, This Trip marks a conscious shift toward intimacy and honesty. Burt brings the immediacy of his live performances into the studio, stripping back instrumentation to place the listener directly in the room with the storyteller. The result is a warm, immersive listening experience where every lyric lands with intention and every pause carries meaning - an album that invites you to slow down, lean in, and truly listen.

Lyrically, This Trip reflects on life in all its chapters, exploring love, loss, hurt, fear, joy, and the moments that define who we become. These are songs shaped by experience and delivered with empathy, offering comfort as much as truth. Listening to Kevin Burt feels less like consuming music and more like sharing space- it's reflective, grounding, and quietly transformative. This Trip isn't just an album you hear; it's one you feel, and one you'll want to return to again and again.

"His blend of blues, soul and gospel remains as compelling as ever, but it is the humanity at the heart of these performances that leaves the strongest impression. Burt does not simply sing about life’s struggles and triumphs. He makes them feel immediate and real. This Trip is an understated but deeply affecting album from a master storyteller, reminding us that some of the most powerful blues comes from simply telling the truth." (Colin Campbell, bluesmatters.com)

Kevin Burt, vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica

Kevin Burt
Waterloo native Kevin B.F. Burt was working to finance his intended graduate degree at the University of Iowa, but after his boss invited him to a dinner, that in fact turned out to be an audition for the blues band her son was forming, Kevin left the job behind and began a musical odyssey that has become his career. That audition got him a spot in the Blues Instigators, who later went on to win the 1995 Iowa Blues Challenge and provide Kevin his first opportunity to perform in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge. Over the years as a band leader and solo performer Kevin has performed over 300 gigs a year to make a living playing the music he loves. He has also become a prolific blues educator, including currently serving as master clinician for Central Iowa Blues Society’s Blues in the Schools program. 22 years after that first appearance Kevin returned to Memphis, as the 2017 Iowa Blues Challenge Solo/Duo champion. It was there that he became an overnight international sensation, almost 30 years in the making. He not only won the Solo/Duo category at the International Blues Challenge, he was also the recipient of the Cigar Box Guitar award and Lee Oskar Harmonica award. Kevin is currently playing and singing just as he has for the last three decades, the only difference is that the rest of the world is now in on Iowa’s best kept secret.

This album contains no booklet.