EXCLUSIVE: Dallas Burrow Premieres 'Disappearing Ink' from Forthcoming The Way The West Was Won

When Charley Crockett declares you to be "one of the finest songwriters to come out of Texas in this generation" you know you've hit a sweet spot.

More than a dozen years into his acclaimed career, Dallas Burrow continues to carry the torch for a particular brand of storytelling Texas-born songwriters who came before him with his forthcoming album, The Way The West Was Won, due out in September.

The New Braunfels native looks back and reimagines the tales from the trails of the outliers that came before him on a record that reads like a long lost love letter to Texas.

Produced by Grammy winner Lloyd Maines and recorded in just two days, it's a richly imaginative collection of cowboy songs, conjuring up a Wild West landscape of vaqueros and outlaws and featuring guest appearances from Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kelly Willis, and Jim Lauderdale, This is music for campfires and trail rides, theatres and festival stages, and Burrow's delivery nods to influences like Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, and Marty Robbins as well as contemporaries like Charley Crockett and Vincent Neil Emerson.

He gives us the first taste of the new album with the impeccable 'Disappearing Ink.'

"This song, to me, captures the timeless essence and spirit of the archetypal dastardly drifter, charming, but dangerous," Dallas Burrow explains about the song. "Whether it be in the Old West, current day, or in the distant future, I feel certain there will always be the occasional lone wolf character, roaming town to town in search of adventure, romance, and mischief. It also touches on the idea of there being an author of all things, and metaphorically refers to reality itself being the 'disappearing ink' that flows from God's pen, which, like the drifter, is here one second, and the next, it's gone."

"This track is a good example of my own fingerpicking guitar style," he says about the recording. "With an unorthodox rolling banjo added by Lloyd Maines, and stabbing fiddle work, this time by Robert Earl Keen’s fiddle player, Brian Beken."

Listen to 'Disappearing Ink' below.

'Disappearing Ink' is taken from The Way The West Was Won out 26 September on Forty Below Records. Presave here