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Chanteur Country-Folk US né en 1964.
This
husky-voiced country-folk singer/songwriter is very much in the mold of the
Lubbock, TX, school of mavericks, including Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and
Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Richard
Buckner is actually based in San Francisco, but the Lubbock connection is no
accident. His debut album, Bloomed, was recorded in Lubbock, for one
thing, with producer Lloyd Maines, who has also worked with Hancock, Allen,
Joe Ely, and Uncle Tupelo. Maines himself
plays several instruments on the record, and Buckner's band is fleshed out with
several other Texas musicians, including Hancock (who adds a harmonica cameo)
and accordion player Ponty Bone.
Buckner's principal following, however, is not with the country audience, but
the alternative rock one. Like Allen and Hancock, the guitarist's work is based
in rootsy country traditions, but his lyrics are far too personal and ambitious
for those who think of country music as virtually synonymous with Nashville. So,
like those Lubbock musicians, he tends to appeal to open-minded rock fans, or
adventurous general music fans, more than country ones. The alternative rock
thread has been strengthened by Buckner's leadership of a San Francisco
country-rock band, the Doubters (who do not appear on his album), and a support
slot on a Son Volt tour in early 1996.
Appearing on a small Texas independent label, his album won good critical
notices, and his signing to a major company for 1997's acclaimed Devotion +
Doubt seemed to signal that both rock and country listeners would be much
more widely exposed to him in the future. Since followed in 1998 and
The Hill, an interpretation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, was
issued two years later. Recorded at his home studio in Canada, 2002's Impasse
was next, and was his first CD of all original music in over four years. The
next year, Buckner returned with a self-titled release, a divine set of songs
that was limited to 2,000 pressings and previously available only as a tour
item. Dents and Shells followed in 2004 along with Meadow in 2006,
both of which were released on indie rock hotshot Merge Records.Buckner was
absent for five years after Meadow; though he tried to record, he was prevented
by various circumstances including writing a score for a film that never
happened, and being briefly detained and questioned in a murder investigation in
a small upstate New York town where he was living. He relocated both home and
studio, and began work on a new album, only to have his analog tape machine die.
Eventually finding new means to record, he invited pedal steel boss Buddy Cage and Sonic
Youth drummer Steve Shelley to record, but the laptop storing all the mixes of
his new songs on it was stolen and he was once again deterred. Buckner finally
completed work on the nine songs that make up Our Blood, and released the album
via Merge in the late summer of 2011. The 2013 follow up Surrounded was a little
less fraught with hold ups and hardships. Buckner wrote all the songs for that
record using an electronic autoharp, an instrument he wasn't entirely familiar
with when he began composing with it.
http://www.richardbuckner.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buckner_(musician)
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Country-Folk, Alternative Country, Americana
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
SP & EP
| 1998 | CD MCA MCA5P-4277 (US) (promo) |
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Live At Schubas Tavern - Hand @ The Hem / Lucky Buzz / Boys, The Night Will Bury You / Coursed / Here / Goner W/Souvenir |
| 1998 | CD MCA MCA3P-90127 (US) (promo) |
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Since - Lil' Wallet Picture / Interview w/ Liza Richardson / The Catfish Song / Fater (Monsoon version) |
| 09/2002 | CD OVERCOAT OC 16 (US) |
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IMPASSE-ETTE - Born Into Giving It Up / Stumble-Ette / Loaded At the Wrong Door (acoustic) / Remainder / It's Still '56 / Born Into Giving It Up (acoustic) |
| 2012 | CD MERGE MRG443 (US) |
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Willow / Lost |
Albums
| 01/1994 | CD DEJADISC 3218 (US) |
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BLOOMED - Blue And Wonder / Rainsquall / 22 / Mud / Six Years / This Is Where / Gauzy Dress In The Sun / Daisychain / Desire / Up North / Surprise, AZ / Cradle To The Angel | ||
| 03/1997 | CD MCA 11564 (US) |
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DEVOTION + DOUBT - Pull / Lil Wallet Picture / Ed's Song / Home / A Goodbye Rye / Fater / Kate Rose / 4AM / Roll / Polly Waltz / Figure / On Travelling / Song Of 27 | ||
| 08/1998 | CD MCA 11780 (US) |
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SINCE - Believer / Faithful Shooter / Ariel Ramirez / Jewelbomb / The Ocean Cliff Clearing / Goner W/ Souvenir / Slept / Pico / Coursed / Lucky Buzz / 10-Day Room / Brief & Boundless / Raze / Hand @ The Hem / Boys, The Night Will Bury You / Once | ||
| 01/2000 | CD NOT ON LABEL ? (US) |
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RICHARD BUCKNER - On Traveling / Boys, The Night Will Bury You / Ed's Song / A Goodbye Rye / Home / Song Of 27 / Roll / Pull / Figure / Jewelbomb / Lil Wallet Picture | ||
| 10/2000 | CD OVERCOAT 8 (US) |
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THE HILL - Mrs Merritt / Tom Merritt / Elmer Karr / Ollie McGee / Fletcher McGee / Julia Miller / Willard Fluke / Elizabeth Childers / A. D. Blood / Oscar Hummel / Mellie Clark / Johnnie Sayre / Dora Williams / Reuben Pantier / Emily Sparks / Amanda Barker / The Hill / William + Emily | ||
| 10/2002 | CD OVERCOAT 14 (US) |
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IMPASSE - Grace-I'd-Said-I'd-Known / Born Into Giving It Up / Hoping Wishers Never Lose / Loaded @ The Wrong Door / (A Year Ahead)...& A Light / Put On What You Wanna / A Shift / ...& The Clouds've Lied / Stumble Down / Count Me In On This One / Dusty From The Talk / Were You Tried & Not As Tough / Impasse / I Know What I Knew / Stutterstep | ||
| 01/2003 | CD OVERCOAT OC 03 (US) |
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RICHARD BUCKNER - On Traveling / Boys, The Night Will Bury You / Ed's Song / A Goodbye Rye / Home / Song Of 27 / Roll / Pull / Figure / Jewelbomb / Lil Wallet Picture | ||
| 2003 | CD Fargo FA20358 F) |
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RICHARD BUCKNER - On Traveling / Boys, The Night Will Bury You / Ed's Song / A Goodbye Rye / Home / Song Of 27 / Roll / Pull / Figure / Jewelbomb / Lil Wallet Picture / BONUS TRACKS : Loaded At The Wrong Door (acoustic) / Born Into Giving It Up (acoustic) | ||
| 10/2004 | CD MERGE 249 (US) |
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DENTS AND SHELLS - A Chance Counsel / Firsts / Invitation / Straight / Her / Charmers / Fuse / Rafters / Picture Day / As The Waves Will Always Roll | ||
| 2005 | CD Buried Treasure BURT4 (US) |
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Sir Dark Invader Vs. The Fanglord - Richard Buckner & Jon Langford - Rolling Of The Eyes / Nothing To Show / Sweet Anybody / From Attic To Basement / Torn Apart / Stayed / The Inca Princess / No Tears Tonight / Do You Wanna Go Somewhere ? |
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| 11/2005 | 2 CD ? (US) |
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RICHARD BUCKNER -
SPECIAL EDITION BOX SET :
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| 09/2006 | CD MERGE MRG279 (US) |
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MEADOW - Town / Canyon / Lucky / Mile / Before / Window / Kingdom / Numbered / Spell / The Tether And The Tie | ||
| 08/2011 | CD MERGE MRG339 (US) |
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OUR BLOOD - Traitor / Escape / Thief / Collusion / Ponder / Witness / Confession / Hindsight / Gang | ||
| 09/2013 | CD MERGE MRG499 (US) |
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Surrounded - Surrounded / When You Tell Me How It Is / Beautiful Question / Foundation / Portrait / Mood / Go / Cut / Lean-To |
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| 03/2014 | 2 CD MERGE MRG355 (US) (limited edition) |
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