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Now That I Know (Ted Lucas)—session, song notes & home recording
In remembrance of record stores — for some of us, deep sanctuaries of time wonderfully lost in reflective escape. My first experience was as a…
Richard Buckner
Apr 29, 2022
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Once (since cassette demos 1997)
There’s much flame imagery throughout the 1998 album Since. The final song, Once, alone mentions a fuse, a torch & a spray of lights. But, it was only…
Richard Buckner
Feb 25
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A Chance Counsel (attic version)
There are places where something usually happens that maybe you don't realize happened until after you've left because you're in the middle of it & it…
Richard Buckner
Apr 10, 2022
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Lucky Buzz & the superstitious matter of guitar. (song notes & 8/28/98 live recording)
Let's slip outside the theater of reality for a moment to explore the absurdity of living within it. Stick with me here, then we'll get into the musical…
Richard Buckner
May 20, 2022
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Meaning (lost-&-found home recording #2)
this recording features both "bad" & well-meaning "penguin" tambos
Richard Buckner
Jan 8
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Cut (catnap home demo)
I accidentally chased down the tracking notes for the song Cut while I was hunting around for something else that I've now lost track of again.
Richard Buckner
Nov 19, 2022
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Julia Miller (spoon river demo)
The life of this song from The Hill began in a Death Valley motel week in 1997 with a four-track cassette recorder and a book: Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon…
Richard Buckner
Jul 2, 2022
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Sections
. . . she begins asking the server questions about the various southwestern sauces in a voice conveying slight stress or anxious excitement . . .
Richard Buckner
Jan 1
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Oscar Hummel (spoon river demo)
only at odds depending on time of night & where toleration may inadvertently take you
Richard Buckner
Jul 28, 2022
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The Road Over The Hill — week 5
Well, Heavens to Murgatroyd!, here we are again. Just as week 1 of this series got the show on the road midway through an ongoing calendar of fiscal…
Richard Buckner
Dec 18, 2022
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past presences
the scene of a multigenerational coven of matriarchs, collected around a kitchen table spirit board & heart-shaped planchette
Richard Buckner
Oct 23, 2022
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Believer (since cassette demos 1997)
I’ll begin this series with the last song on the tape, Believer, because it tail-ends with a few seconds of hubbub where I put the…
Richard Buckner
Feb 12
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