In the rich tradition of artists like Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, and Dave Alvin, Randy Burk creates music that is at once exciting and familiar, honest and soulful, fearless and introspective. Working steel since he was 14, Burk has an unparalleled blue-collar work ethic that he's easily applied to the cutthroat world of music but, with a midwestern sensibility that for the last 11 years has enabled him to play more than 200 shows a year across the Midwest, West Coast, and Europe with the Prisoners. Burk's affinity for songs about love, life, pain, and good ole hard work can be traced to his small-town Iowa roots. Born and raised in Atlantic, Iowa, Burk spent much of his youth singing in the church and listening to his father's collection of Elvis Presley 8 tracks. These roots he never abandoned even while sharing the stage with artists from Big Smith to Jason Aldean. Roots that ground honesty to his song writing, and humility across the thousands of miles and thousands of shows. "My boots have known mostly rocky roads, but that makes the songs come easy," Burk says. Randy Burk and the Prisoners won the #2 slot in the most recent and final ArtistSignal.com 90-day competition for $25,000. The band will be recording, touring, and promoting a new album with the capital won. Recording begins in November 2012, and the new album will be released in Spring 2013. Burk and the Prisoners are currently writing, touring, and recording...

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