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“There are three kinds of American folk artist: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the sombre-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1984” (Sylvie Simmons; The Guardian, 2004) In Richard Buckner's songs, ... MORE
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I'm a little late in the game I guess, as Buckner's most recent album Meadow came out in 2006. Anyway, if any trace of Buckner's quasi-twang persona was still lurking in his music, the dark, churning surge of "Town"s melody has chased it from the room. Heavy, yes, but steeped in a melody that knows where its groove is.
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You can't tell that September has come and gone in Austin, TX, but you can dream about what cold weather must be like. To assist me in doing this is the music channeling through my ears. I'm breaking out old fall favourites like Arab Strap and The Mountain Goats as well as heading out to see other brilliant autumnal acts. Yesterday, I steered myself south of the river to check out Richard Buckner's instore at End of an Ear Records. Honestly, it was one of the best inst... MORE
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Richard Buckner is one of my favorites, despite a run of records that haven't really kept up the amazing pace he set with Devotion and Doubt and Since. He's back recording with JD Foster, the bass player (Silos, Syd Straw) and producer, who made those great heartfelt, rumbling and melodic LPs. And his new single is frickin' awesome, a total return to form. There's even a chorus, and it's catchy. He has always toyed with song snippets, raised notions that don't so much reso... MORE
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A friend gave me Richard Buckner's latest and I brought it with me on a road trip to Baltimore and D.C. this past weekend. I had listened to it once at home and rejected it as plenty nice, but not terribly interesting. Grabbing it for road music was a whim - and cheers to whimsy because I love it. I listened to it a half-dozen times in the rental car and fell hard for it. Every song on the album seems like an earlier or later version of another song on the album. A threa... MORE
