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Burns & Poe

 

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Michelle Poe: Lead Vocals
Keith Burns: lead Vocals

 

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Country Thunder’s recently formed dynamic duo Burns & Poe are poised to release their first single, “This Ain't Your Everyday Whiskey,” to country radio with high expectations for 2009. This perfectly balanced singing songwriting team of Keith Burns and Michelle Poe will split the lead vocal chores right down the middle.

Burns and Poe are individually no strangers to country music fans. He was a founder and vocal mainstay of the group Trick Pony, and for the past five years, and she’s been the accomplished and eye-catching bass player and harmony singer for the likes of Dierks Bentley and Hank Williams Jr.

Produced James Stroud brought the two together, and there was an instant connection. “She’s got these real silky vocals—real smooth and sexy,” Burns observes, “and mine are real raspy and edgy. Together, it just works.” “We realized from the beginning that we had something special to offer,” Poe adds. “We clicked in every way.”

Not only did the two singers blend together musically, they also discovered a profound songwriting chemistry. Almost all the songs ... on their new CD, were penned together.

An established writer, Burns has had songs recorded by Joe Diffie, Hootie & The Blowfish, Sammy Kershaw, Anita Cochran and, of course, Trick Pony. Like Burns, Poe has a keen sensibility on what great country music entails. “It’s about real life,” she told one interviewer, “about honest, straight-from-the-heart emotions.”

Always the optimist, Burns has big plans for himself and his duet partner. “As soon as our album goes platinum,” he confides with a mischievous grin, “we’re flying to all our shows. Michelle is a pilot, so we’ll get us a little King Air, and the sky will be the limit for us.”

Look on the horizon for BURNS AND POE!

 

 

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