I found Richard Buckner about 3 years ago, but just got back to his music while sorting through my music collection. My favorite song Ariel Ramirez is in the same laid-back, vintage style as most of his other music. The album has some great guitar-work and clear vocals. Overall, Richard Buckner presents great folk imagery. An interesting bit of trivia: Richard played with Eric Bachmann in 2006 and one of their stops was about 20 or fewer miles from where our own Hugh lives. From Devotion and Doubt Ariel Ramirez [...]
Richard Buckner Meadow ( Merge ) Gentle acoustic guitars, light electric flourishes and occasional piano backdrops with stunning lyrics delivered with subtle restraint.
Credit: MPR photo/Derrick Stevens I am so glad Richard Buckner has a beard again. If any man's face belongs behind a beard, it's Buckner's. For starters, he's a large man. Not overweight or anything, just burly. And he's got that voice – husky and full. (Though it sounds far less imposing in conversation, actually.) Judging by the picture (perhaps not the most flattering), his gray, unruly whiskers just fit a man whose music connotes all the sorrow and depression of a back-country dive bar. This, my friends, is the [...]
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NASA: "Space travel is simple" Musak:Mixed-Chill MP3: Kings of Convenience - Know How from Riot On An Empty Street (2004) [ buy it at amazon.com ] Take a little folk music. It helps me slide into Fridays. MP3: Richard Buckner - Ariel Ramirez from Since (1998) [ buy it amazon.com ] MP3: Sun Kil Moon - Trucker's Atlas from [...]
My wife and I were back down in Iowa City for a doctor's appointment, so I got to visit the Record Collector . Here's what I picked up. Meadow - Richard Buckner (CD Merge Records MRG279, 2006) ($12.00) I wanted to pick this up so I could become acquainted with his music before the Monday night show at the Picador that- if the blizzard subsides- Sherry and I are planning to go to with some other friends that are Six Parts Seven fans. I'm planning to review that show. This [...]
I'm not at all ashamed to admit that I'm a big fan of NBC's Friday Night Lights (we Tivo it, in fact). Of course, I spent two years in Lubbock, Texas, as a sportswriter after college, covering high school football, among other things. It was a culture shock, to be sure. But it was an eye-opening experience to see how these one-stoplight towns bow down to the altar of football. I became pretty engulged in it, which meant reading H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights was practically mandatory. For the sake [...]
Maria Friberg - Sill Lives 3 (2006) Yesterday was my brother Joe's birthday. And if he would have survived the day of his birth, he'd surely convey a weathered 25 years of age today. He would loosen his tie and lean gently against the counter with his lanky elbows bent at nearly 90 degrees. In the middle of a calm and compassionate story about his day, a quote from a Matt Pond PA song would pass seamlessly without me noticing. It would remind him of college both in playful tone and sly [...]
Richard Buckner released Meadow last year, and it pretty much sealed my belief that the man can do no wrong as far as records go. Back in February of last year, I watched with dropped-jaw as Buckner and Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard tore apart Cafe Montmartre will an inspiring and unforgettable performance by two men with guitars. This time around Buckner will tackle the High Noon Saloon on Tuesday, February 27th with special guests Six Parts Seven. Tickets are $12, [...]
Howdy. Welcome back. Part 2 of the Big Rock Candy Mountain Top 10 Most Favorite Albums All Time of the Year Until I Change My Mind list. Before reading on, head over to Hickory Wind for my preview of a band that's going to be showing up on this list later on this week. It's the post entitled "In Praise of the Bar Band". Now that you're back from that, let's get started. 8. Richard Buckner:
The clusterfuck of music continues. . . "We Dance" "We Dance (Alt. Mix)" by PAVEMENT: The deluxe 2CD rerelease of Pavement's third album, Wowee Zowee , hit the streets a few weeks ago. I almost ordered a copy until I scanned over the tracklisting and realized that I, in some format or another, own almost all of the material. Thank god for eMusic.com, where I'd previously bought most of the b-sides from the likes of the Pacific Trim EP. It was just [...]
Nat Baldwin - "Within Walls" Among other things, music is a physical object extended in space and time. A song's coordinates can be roughly plotted on a Cartesian graph with rhythm (time) on the x axis and pitch (space) on the y. In fact, we do just that all the time and call the result "staff". As far as I know, Nat Baldwin doesn't use staff paper (at least he didn't when I saw him play last week), but his facility in the manipulation of both the spacial and temporal aspects of music to such a powerful effect suggests that [...]
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Window - Richard Buckner By popular request, a song that's a series of revs and false starts, barely getting off the blocks. Tight riffs and chugging drums that hit the wall and back up and try again, never reaching the chorus. Exhausted, collapsing midway, it yields to a pensive keyboard line. This isn't to say "Window," for all its frustrated energy, isn't a good song. It's a very good song. It
In House #1704 : New Richard Buckner, Magnolia Electric Co., Catfish Haven **LISTEN LIVE NOW!** [...]
Well, Meadow came out yesterday. Did you notice? There was certainly a time in my life when anything that Richard Buckner did was greeted by my doing a kind of odd little jig across my living room. I guess not to much anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to disparage Meadow which is a pretty fine, if a little uninspired, album. It's the feeling that Buck's phoning it in a little or maybe it's that he's a little too self conscious of those heady early years when he made such a large [...]
This week brings us a ton of amazing new releases. Probably one of the best weeks of new music this entire year. There were so many albums that i'm cutting the samples to only one track instead of the usual two. A lot of these i'm only listening to for the first time like Bettie Serveert , Richard Buckner and Favourite Sons to albums I can completely recommend to anyone from Brazilian Girls , Junior Boys and Yo La Tengo . There [...]
Richard Buckner has a most distinctive vocal style. At times when he stretches out on a word, a dark, wavering vibrato skitters over the syllable he's singing. It may sound foreign to your ear, but give it a chance, he has a fantastic voice and the songs have the depth which requires a number of listens before they begin to settle in you. His baritone has a rich timbre, and for me it evokes the
Richard Buckner / Meadow ( Merge ) Without having actually heard him, I'd always thought Richard Buckner was "just" a folk guy - not that there's any shame in that - but that presumption was proved very, very wrong from the first notes of his new album Meadow . "Town" is a superb chunk of roots rock powered by Buckner's world-worn, 50 pack-a-day rasp wrapped around a superb vocal melody and ex-GBV axeman Doug Gillard's fretwork. And as high as the [...]
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