‘Laura’ is a song inspired by another song I wrote as a Jim Morrison obsessed teenager about his school friend, Laura, with whom I walked home from school. Entitled ‘Ship in the Night’, the original song has Laura cast as Thor’s mistress as she battles overcome the heartache and misery she is suffering. ‘Laura’ is me wondering, years later, whether she was ever able to escape the “dark angels” that hounded her during her salad days and find the happiness and love she craved.

‘Laura’ is backed with ‘Sunny Apocalypse’, a quirky reflection on the early part of the Covid pandemic in the form of a disaster movie dream in which Burton and co-star Holliday Grainger find themselves dodging ‘giant globs of Covid raining from the sky’.
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releases October 22, 2021

RockCounsellor is:
Thoby Burton: Vocals, Guitar, Keys;
in collaboration with:
Richard Campbell: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys.

All songs written by Thoby Burton
All songs arranged by Thoby Burton and Richard Campbell
Engineered and mixed by Richard Campbell
Recorded at Orpheus Studio, London, 2020/21
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering
Produced by Richard Campbell and Thoby Burton
Graphic Design by Thoby Burton


℗ 2021 Blue Porcelain
© 2021 Thomas 'Thoby' Burton

Laura

Laura by RockCounsellor

What’s it like in paradise?

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Chin

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recorder
voices
unplugged bass
tenor guitar

Knuckle Dregs

“Singing in hiding”

Art work: Bianca Van Dijk via Pixabay
Vocal: Vocaloid Yukari and a dove cooing in the treetops of a neighbor's garden.

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I want to sing like a dove, hiding high in the treetops.

Singing in hiding

Singing In Hiding

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