Jonathan Burks grew up in Racine, WI. By the time he moved to Milwaukee to attend college and become a folk singer in 1997, Burks had been writing songs for a number years. As he pounded the pavement of the Milwaukee folk scene throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, playing every open-mic and basement show that would have him, and touring the country by Greyhound and Amtrak, he accumulated a huge catalog of songs, some of them heartbreaking, some of them hilarious, and all of them disarmingly honest. Though a confirmed folky, Burks was also in love with punk (for the ethos) a… read more
Jonathan Burks grew up in Racine, WI. By the time he moved to Milwaukee to attend college and become a folk singer in 1997, Burks had been writing songs for a number years. As he pounded the pavement of the Milwaukee folk scene throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, playing every open-m… read more
Jonathan Burks grew up in Racine, WI. By the time he moved to Milwaukee to attend college and become a folk singer in 1997, Burks had been writing songs for a number years. As he pounded the pavement of the Milwaukee folk scene throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, playing every open-mic and basement show that would have him, and touring the country by Gre… read more