Richard Buckner 'Our Blood' Due August 2 On Merge Records

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It's been a while since we heard from Richard Buckner. Well, it’s a long story! Following the release of 2006's Meadow, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then there was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out car that had all eyes in Buckner’s small hometown in upstate New York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck. After a move to a safer, less popular corpse-dumping ground, the death of his tape machine led to yet another reboot. Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved.

In April '10, Buddy Cage dropped by Buckner’s home studio to play pedal steel. Shortly after, Steve Shelley headed upstate in a Zipcar and played percussion. Buckner put the new mixes on his laptop and then his new “safer” place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.

Finally after a period of re-thinking/re-recording, in February '11, Buckner walked a few blocks from his house to Malcolm Burns place and where he mixed the album and then, walked back home. Jill Draper laid out the images he had made for Our Blood, which will finally be released August 2 on Merge Records.

Richard Buckner

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