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A BiTS INTERVIEw: Aaron burton

Aaron Burton was raised in Euless, TX, a small town outside Fort
Worth. He was surrounded by music; his father was a musician with

The Bee's Knees (which included blues guitarist Anson Funderburgh)
and The Buster Brown Band, bluegrass harmonies were often sung

at family gatherings, and his parents had a huge record collection.

Far from being a revivalist—writing his own music—he nevertheless

seeks to keep alive the ethos of the plethora of musicians that brought

life to Deep Ellum and other parts of Dallas.

Ian McKenzie spoke to him at his home in East Dallas.

BiTS: Hello, Aaron, it's Ian McKenzie.

AB: Hi Ian, how you doing?

BiTS: I'm doing very well indeed, thank you.
How nice to speak to you again after all this long
time. It was a very long time ago that we chatted,

wasn't it?

AB: Yes, sir.

BiTS: Tell me something about what you've been

doing in the meantime.

AB: Oh, same old stuff just playing around,
playing around Dallas, Fort Worth. I’ve got a

little day job that I've always had, got a family.
Just plugging at it, keeping busy, playing

about three times a week, average.

BiTS: I believe you've been running some
kind of a, what is it, open mic event or

something in Dallas somewhere?

AB: Well it used to be kind of a jam. It's
Tuesday nights at The Goat. It's a blues

bar; it's right in my neighbourhood over
here in East Dallas. I always had a guest.
What I would do is I would open up, have

a guest, and then before COVID, I would
open it up for jammers afterwards. We
stopped for like a year or maybe two during