I’ve never seen Richard Buckner in the flesh but from photos he always looks like someone not entirely at ease in his own body. Author, David Foster Wallace gave me the same impression.
This would account for the dark, introspective qualities of Buckner’s songs I have always found so affecting.
He ‘s back with a new album after an unplanned delay of nearly six years. The record is called Our Blood and is already out on Merge Records.
In the UK, it is due out at the end of September on Decor records, a London based record label, management company and European booking agency. Not that you’d know this from their website as his name only comes up as a small news item and he has not yet been added to their artist list.
Don’t they realise what a quality act they have on their books? Also, why should there be such a gap between the US and European release dates? Someone, somewhere needs to pull their finger out.
Buckner himself must be resigned to indifference, despite the brilliance of his back catalogue he remains a cult figure who has to finance his music by taking on short term construction work. In a recent interview, he takes a philosophical view about this state of affairs. Of his fellow workers, he says: “Most people in this world don’t have an easy way to get out of these situations; they move from one hamster wheel to the next hamster wheel. I have this other life that I can go back to and take me away from that”.
He is due to do some UK dates in November, hopefully he’ll also come to Italy. You can read my glowing review of his album on Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ here.
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Richard Buckner’s one and only date in Italy (amazingly, his first ever concert in the country) is at the relatively modest Bronson Club in Ravenna.
