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Richard Buckner is an American singer songwriter born in California, resident in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for a number of years, and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. A critically-acclaimed artist most often associated with the Alternative Country movement, Buckner has in recent albums eschewed his initial acoustic approach and displayed an increasing interest in more abstract music styles.
Buckner began his career with the acoustic “Bloomed” (1994), a lyrically dense suite of songs recorded in Lubbock, Texas and heavily influenced by that state’s tradition of whisky-soaked poet/troubadors, probably best embodied by Townes Van Zandt. In 1996, he released the major label “Devotion & Doubt,” with members of Giant Sand backing him, displaying a more adventurous, almost avante garde approach to songwriting and arranging.
Since then, he has returned to recording for smaller labels, to continued critical acclaim and cult status. His 2000 album The Hill - his first for Chicago-based indie label Overcoat Recordings - features poems from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915), which Buckner set to music. The album plays as a single track, nearly thirty-five minutes long. He returned in 2002, first with the “teaser” EP Impasse-ette, then a full-length entitled Impasse one month later.
Buckner began his career with the acoustic “Bloomed” (1994), a lyrically dense suite of songs recorded in Lubbock, Texas and heavily influenced by that state’s tradition of whisky-soaked poet/troubadors, probably best embodied by Townes Van Zandt. In 1996, he released the major label “Devotion & Doubt,” with members of Giant Sand backing him, displaying a more adventurous, almost avante garde approach to songwriting and arranging.
Since then, he has returned to recording for smaller labels, to continued critical acclaim and cult status. His 2000 album The Hill - his first for Chicago-based indie label Overcoat Recordings - features poems from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915), which Buckner set to music. The album plays as a single track, nearly thirty-five minutes long. He returned in 2002, first with the “teaser” EP Impasse-ette, then a full-length entitled Impasse one month later.
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Devotion + Doubt
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Since
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Dents and Shells
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Meadow
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Home
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Song of 27
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On Travelling
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catachresistant wrote:
The Hill is such an immense, almost impenetrable work...
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ggoes wrote:
My friends and I were talking to him at his show on Tuesday. We mentioned how we had seen his other two St. Louis shows this year at a local venue called Off Broadway and he said, "Yeah, but I like this place better. It has a taco bar."
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GoodCatGoneBad wrote:
He is breaking my heart tonight....
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morningside24 wrote:
Met him last night outside his show in Brooklyn. Man, his show was intense, but he was a really nice guy to chat to!
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morningside24 wrote:
I have 'Bloomed' so far and I think it's great. Looking forward to getting some other stuff when I can...
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sh8k_et wrote:
Yeah, Richard is as nice as his voice sounds. I'm trying to replace my lost catalog of his music and I'm still missing the best one, Dents and Shells. I have Bloomed, Devotion..., The Hill, Meadow, Since, Sir Dark Invader... and I'm willing to make a trade for Dents and Shells for any of those albums. Viva la Buckner.
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walleye1 wrote:
Yea, too bad we don't have more stuff oh here from "Bloomed".
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Carlton129 wrote:
Met him on a street corner in Knoxville, Tennessee. As nice a guy as he is talented.
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brettac1 wrote:
I am so hooked on Bloomed right now that it is borderline scary.
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gbkrause wrote:
how is Blue and Wonder not in that list
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cruz992 wrote:
What is the Buckner live box set?
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PraveenSharma wrote:
This man's saved my life twice now.
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flitis wrote:
looooooooove. sexiest voice.
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Premitive1 wrote:
Buckner's been one of my favorite singer/songwriters for a few years now. I just wish he had a better website so maybe I could know if he's every having a show near me.
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armchairempire wrote:
I'm liking this!
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ConradPoohs19 wrote:
Reading Spoon River Anthology, I knew someone would make music out of it...
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isadissa66 wrote:
Devotion & Doubt is a classic Album , also try the Buckner Box live
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isadissa66 wrote:
An Awesome Singer/songwriter , passionate and from the heart...
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erikdi wrote:
He's a genius. Why he's not huge is beyond me. Ariel Ramirez is just amazing - the strange thing is that I could say that about more than 50 Buckner songs.
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palanwen wrote:
you guys said it.. in total agreement.
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