C/D, S/D : Richard Buckner

(aside from impasse and d&d, i'd say since is my other fave)

was just listening to this and it is great: http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/richard-buckner-concert/20031095-5855.html

missed Meadow, was it good?

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/24/138586259/first-listen-richard-buckner-our-blood

on first listen, kinda sounds like buckner by numbers. i'll have to spend more time with it

finally getting around to this, sounds amazing at the moment. maybe some of his best vocals? choice cut so far is "collusion".

aero jr. found our copy of "our blood," which I'd listened to when it came out and thought, sure fine ok, it's nice, and then forgotten about; but when aero jr. takes an interest in an album, that means we'll be hearing it a couple of times a day -- in the car, on the kitchen boombox. and I gotta say, this is a really, really good album that feels like an ok album the first five or six times through. but once it took hold of me -- can't shake the melodies, slight as they are, and the mood is just...languidly ominous? idk, really mesmerizing album once you get to know it

I've felt his last few were "sure fine ok, it's nice" and then forgotten about them. Will have to give this one a fresh listen.

I've been spending quite a bit of time with the recent vinyl reissue of Bloomed, though, and that's a front-to-back classic. Even the bonus tracks are worth hearing.

man the more time I spend with this guy's music the more I feel he's one of the most underrated dudes around

every album of his I give some extended attention to I end up thinking "he's totally got his own corner and is a legit dude"

I stopped caring a few albums ago, I admit, but the whole Bloomed through Impasse stretch of records is indeed awesome. Years ago, he was booked at a local bar which is notably not the kind that houses live music, and certainly not the kind of live music that Richard Buckner plays, and he got so pissed off at the crowd's inattention that when he broke a guitar string four or five songs in, he just ended the show. Me, being like 19 at time, was kind of afraid to approach him after that, but eventually I did and he signed my copy of Since and sat down for a beer and a chat with me and was in general totally nice and cool.

Bloomed through Impasse stretch of records is indeed awesome this yes.

Don't worry - he's not dead! I just wanted to say that Bloomed is cutting me to the quick tonight. Must be something to do with autumn and the fading days.

One of the posh comedians (Marcus Brigstocke, I think?) said he understood a certain tranche of Tories as being psychopathic because, like them, he'd been sent away at 8 to boarding school and had his heart broken too - which is why they're so dangerous.

And I know the Trump parallels are tedious but this does have the stink of ah, this will be the thing that gets him.

Hah - wrong thread par excellence!

Kept waiting for that second post to make its way towards something like Richard Buckner lyrics that retroactively seem to be about Trump or his voters.

Is he playing again? I saw his name pop up elsewhere recently and had wondered about a year ago what he had been up to. Does he still live in Chicago area? What does Richard Buckner do all day if he's not making music?

just saw richard play an un-amplified show at a bookstore in boulder last week — really great. he's one of a kind. seems to be upstate NY based these days? said he had a job as a postman.

I had a friend randomly recommend Buckner to another friend the other day, and my first thought was that Buckner had passed away. Glad to hear he is still around.

seemed to be in good shape, in a good mood. sounded exactly like richard buckner.
doing a bunch of these intimate shows: https://undertowshows.com/collections/richard-buckner