Artist: Richard Buckner
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Richard Buckner – Meadow
The battle scars of Richard Buckner’s voice may never soothe the Starbucks crowd, but that doesn’t mean his music doesn’t go down easy. The swirling, pretty songs of Meadow are made for recent Buckner converts and continue the return to form he started with Dents And Shells two years back. His vocal tremors and spooky [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Richard Buckner & Jon Langford – Sir Dark Invader vs The Fanglord
Jon Langford and Richard Buckner aren’t such polar opposites as, say, Jay-Z and the Beatles, but this joint venture has some of the same left-field appeal of an unexpected pop mash-up: It’s most interesting for the ways in which each player’s talents connect, collide, or combine to create something unexpected or altogether new. The more [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Richard Buckner – Dents And Shells
Richard Buckner’s finest albums, 1997′s Devotion + Doubt and its 1998 follow-up Since, arose from similar circumstances: He holed up alone to write the songs, then immersed himself with musicians from a particular local scene to record them. The pattern is repeated on the new Dents And Shells, this time not with Tucson musicians (as [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Richard Buckner – Schubas (Chicago, IL)
Even ten years past Anodyne and nearly twenty past Fear And Whiskey, three decades since Gram Parsons died in the desert and five since Elvis Presley first played the Opry, there’s still plenty of unmapped frontier in the roots-rock world. And both Richard Buckner and Bobby Bare Jr. are blazing new trails. Buckner once followed [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Richard Buckner – Impasse
Richard Buckner’s fifth disc did not come easily. He first conceived a collaboration with guitarist Eric Heywood and Sebadoh drummer Jason Loewenstein, but the results left him unsatisfied, so Buckner scrapped the tapes and retreated to Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Penny Jo. There the couple cobbled together a home studio, and Buckner wrote, played [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Richard Buckner – Dead Men Talking
Richard Buckner first entered my consciousness in 1990, long before I knew his name. He worked as a clerk at A Cappella Books in Atlanta’s Little Five Points. I might have asked him a question once, I’m not sure. I do have this hazy recollection of a burly, rather sullen guy who sat behind the [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Richard Buckner – Bloomed
Richard Buckner’s 1994 debut album, Bloomed, heralded the arrival of a uniquely expressive and honest songwriter and reaped Buckner tomes of critical praise, a deal with MCA (now void), and heavyweight expectations — some of which he’s delivered on, some of which he hasn’t. For me, though, Bloomed has a whole ‘nother meaning. It’s one [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Dana & Karen Kletter / Richard Buckner – The Brewery (Raleigh, NC)
It’s really a shame Richard Buckner has to spend so much time playing in bars, which can be a distracting environment for someone whose music depends so much on quiet dynamics. On his previous visit to Raleigh, across town at the Berkeley Cafe back in January, Buckner cut his performance short because he felt the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Calexico / Richard Buckner – Cicero’s (St. Louis, MO)
Joey Burns crouches over his hollowbody Harmony at the corner of the stage, delay cranked to eerie; behind him, John Convertino stirs and dabs at his kit. Burns and Convertino’s resumes have circulated widely enough: Giant Sand, Friends Of Dean Martinez, Vic Chesnutt, Lisa Germano…they must wonder when Calexico will be taken seriously on its [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Richard Buckner – Devotion & Doubt
In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote “Song of 27″, the album’s final track, “as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family’s characters. I abandoned the project due to the overuse of expletives.” It’s just as well. Instead, Devotion [...]
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