Our Blood is Buckner's first recording since 2006's Meadow. He endured numerous obstacles along the way: broken gear resulting in the album's loss, the later theft of a laptop containing his new mixes and more astonishing ones. These nine new songs are a quiet, atmospheric, aural portrait of struggle, confusion, frustration, and the inability to surrender. Richard Buckner is an American singer-songwriter born in California, United States. After living in Edmonton, Alberta, for a number of years, he relocated to Brooklyn, New York. Buckner's solo career began with Bloomed 1994, a lyrically dense suite of songs recorded in Lubbock, Texas and produced by Lloyd Maines. It was released when Buckner was the frontman of the band The Doubters, which was not achieving very much success at the time. In January 1996, while living in San Francisco, he recorded an. Richard Buckner. Our Blood. Our Blood's story is a long one. There was the score to a film that never happened, there was a brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out car that had all eyes on Buckner, there was the death of his tape machine, and, shortly after Richard called in pedal steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new 'safer' place was. Goodbye, laptop. Buckner says: 'Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of truth. voilà, the record was. Our Blood by Richard Buckner, released 02 August 2011 1. Traitor 2. Escape 3. Thief 4. Collusion 5. Ponder 6. Witness 7. Confession 8. Hindsight 9. This is the area that Richard Buckner explores. Contact Hannah Stormborn: hannahstormborn. Sep 2013. Aug 2011. Our Blood, 2011. Traitor, 05:12. Escape, 03:29. Richard Buckner was forced to make Our Blood- his most concise, driven, and well-considered album in the last decade- three times. Though he's released an album every year or two during his two-decade career, Our Blood is his first since 2006's Meadow. Because that extended interim wasn't intentional, it was, as you might imagine, extremely frustrating. After Meadow, Buckner stopped writing records to focus on a score for a movie that was never released after moving to upstate New York, he worked shifts holding signs for Con Edison construction crews and assisting the Census Bureau before turning his focus back toward a proper LP. Listen free to Richard Buckner Our Blood Traitor, Escape and more. 9 tracks 37:20. BUCKNER,RICHARD-OUR BLOOD CD NEW Condition: Brand New. Time left: 2d 21h 15m 31s Ships to: Worldwide. Richard Buckner - Our Blood Condition: Brand New. Time left: 4d 10h 30m 1s Ships to: Worldwide. RICHARD BUCKNER- OUR BLOOD PROMO-CD Condition: Very Good. Time left: 6d 6h 16m 32s Ships to: Worldwide. Richard Buckner Format: Audio CD. Exclusive discount for Prime members. This album, Buckner's first in five years, was finally released after many setbacks, lending to what Buckner has called its sense of desperation. It is darker than his other two outstanding recent albums, MEADOW 2006 and SURROUNDED 2013, but I find it be the best of a run of songs and albums on a very high plateau of inspiration and craft. Our Blood, like most great singer-songwriter efforts, is open to interpretation, but it's the record's malleable sense of emotion that lends it its peculiar gravity. Read full review
