Image via Josh Burdette’s Facebook page.
This is a bit old, but I’m just now coming across it, so apologies if this is old news to you. Singer-songwriter Frank Turner has written this beautiful, heartbreaking song for the 9:30 Club’s Josh Burdette, who died of an apparent suicide back in September.
Turner played the untitled new song back in November at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, and it’s a lovely song for a D.C. legend who is greatly missed in the local music community. Back September when DCist put together a tribute from the music community for Josh, Turner wrote that “losing Josh is a huge blow, and I still kind of don’t believe it. I met him on tour, like everyone else, and from the first he was a caring, kind and wise friend. I’d see him most places on the East Coast, and he also came over to the UK for my Wembley show; we called him my “security guy”, but actually I just wanted to hang with my friend, and he kept me sane through a very stressful day. I know that every time I’m in DC part of me will be looking round every corner to see if he’s there. The world is a poorer place without him.”
Since his death, a scholarship fund at the University of Maryland—Josh’s alma mater—has been set up in his memory. Check out the full song below: