Tré Burt is no stranger to coincidence. Much of his music career has been marked by chance encounters and happy accidents, the kind of stuff you see in movies but rarely experience in real life. It'd be easy to chalk such happenstance up to luck, then, but for Burt, being in the right place at the right time is a phenomenon born from his lifelong passion for music and his unwavering adherence to living authentically as an artist. In 2018, the Sacramento-based folk singer-songwriter self-released his debut album, Caught It From the Rye. The album, which showcases Burt's literary songwriting and lo-fi, rootsy aesthetic, landed him a handful tour dates and some positive press, but Burt had no idea just how far it would get him: to a spot on the roster at John Prine's Oh Boy Records.
Oh Boy's Director of Operations Jody Whelan discovered Burt, who counts Prine among his "top three favorite artists of all time," while browsing new music online in early summer 2019. After a series of conversations and a few of those happenstance meetings, Whelan and Oh Boy agreed to re-release Burt's debut album, Caught It From the Rye. That decision made Burt one of only two new artists to sign to Oh Boy's roster in the past 15 years.