Richard Buckner

Richard's 8th CD Meadow marked the latest chapter in a story that began in San Francisco, back in the early 90's and has seen writer and singer Buckner chase his muse across the U.S. and Canada many times. His body of work has always seemed to be about motion vs. stillness: about the impulse to run away or towards something or about watching something or someone leave or approach. It's about the restless energy of the heart, full speed ahead, or the consequences taken and embraced, those good and those bad. The false starts, roadblocks, and pitfalls along the way only add to the richness of the journey.

"There are three kinds of American folk artists: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the sombre-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1984."
— Sylvie Simmons The Guardian, 2004

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