Album Lounge: Meadow
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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.... 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
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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 resolve... MORE





