this is good to post..It's from the guy who co-wrote "Wildfire" with Micheal Murphy in the late 70's.He is one of the nations very best songwriters.  His name is Sam Broussard and he lives in Lafayette Louisiana and is now playing guitar  for the "Mamou Playboys." They are a super popular band and they  travel all over the globe playing Cajun/Zydeco. He and I worked together in the 80's and we recently got reconnected. he wrote this letter about my Cd "Everett" and i am gonna have it framed and put on the wall right next to my letter from Mac McAnnaly!

damn burt,
i had gotten to peach moon and thought that's my favorite,  then thought the same thing about atchafalaya light then drunk at  denny's ...    you're one of those artists who sounds exactly like your  personality.  anybody wants to know about burt, well, there he is on  the record, everything you need to know.   he loves land and family  and don't say normal things about stuff.   he fell down a few times  in his food, but up to that point he pays attention if you're  talking.  you're just like that video on your site of you in your  drawers.  "yeah, well, this is me, duh." it's amazing that anyone can  fall for the bubba routine because you have "hey!  i'm burt wilson"  tatooed on your forehead.   how strange, because you make a living  being someone else, but it's amazing that you can even be someone  else for ten minutes.     you sing like a frickin angel, and if i can get you to do a  frickin beach boys choir on one of my songs i am gon do that  somehow.  maybe you should just sing all the lead too.    you have a love for a vanishing aspect of music, the Chord Change,  or Harmony.  none of the current crop of nitwits (and nincompoops)  seem to know what it is, much less what it's good for.   it's good  for gettn girls to wet their pants in a good way, that's what it's  good for, and they don't even know what caused all that humidity up  in their drawers.    you don't sound like mcCartney but you have a similar effect.  of  course we both know he wanted to write curvaceous woman while he was  married to that dead woman with the rack of ribs, but he didn't.   hey, i gotta admit that i haven't been in the car long enough to  hear ... i have yet to hear rollin' and balcony lady (heard florida  boy on your site; you should be a millionaire but of course you're  not) but it reminds me of a french expression for a top-heavy woman,  "elle a tout le monde au balcon," she has everyone in the balcony.    "tout le mond" literally means "all the world" which is the french  word(s) for "everybody."    (now, i know bubba will want to say that on the radio to  demonstrate his sophistication, so here's how you pronounce it: Ella too le mond oh balcon - but you stop just shy of pronouncing the  n in balcon, and mond is like james Bond. Wait ... bubba wouldn't  pronounce it correctly.    nevermind)    i must admit that i still drink, but i never get drunk (it feels  bad) and lately bloodwork has deduced that my triglycerides are at a  level that discourages even normal indulgence.   but i am aware that  a lot of those songs of yours were written when you were in that  dastardly phase of what is erroneously called "your" life.  (that's  right folks, "my life" is an oxymoron.)     the next time you make a record, you should heed my advice (no  one does, so neither should you) and use minimal production.  i  realize it's often necessary so there's something else to focus on,  and you need solos and etcetera.  so many of those songs would have  been killer with just your guitar, the same way the title cut is fine  with just your voices and everett.  the other guitars n' stuff are  fine, but not a decidedly marked improvement did they make beyond  what thou hast already done did.  i understand the need for  percussion and other stuff, but if you're just trying to make  something full, well, neither of us is phil spector, and he's  shithouse bananas crazy.    ignore me.    burt, that's a damn good record.  of all the good things i can say  about it, the best is this:  it has the character of someone i would  want to know.    sam