A Year Ahead & A Light - Music

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. In Early 2003 His Self-Released Self-Titled Album Was Reissued By Overcoat And Was His Final Release For The Label. In 2004 An Edited Version Of Richard Buckner's Song Ariel Ramirez From The Album Since 1998 Was Featured In One Of The Television Ads For Volkswagen's Touareg. He Is Currently Aligned With North Carolina-Based Indie Label Merge Records Who Have Released Four Of His Albums So Far 2004's Dents And Shells 2006's Meadow 2011's Our Blood And 2013's Surrounded As Well As The 7-Inch Single Willow B/w Lost . He Also Recorded An Album With Jon Langford Most Notably Of The Mekons Called Sir Dark Invader Vs. The Fanglord 2005 For Buried Treasure Records. read less