We are very pleased to have had RICHARD BUCKNER for his in-store performance in The Bohemian Cafe, it was a perfect match for Buckner to share the magic and mystery of his songs most recently evidenced in Merge Records release “Our Blood” (2011). All the elements of his artistry are present on this CD/LP in the same sparkle that has made so many of us camp followers for a number of years. Do feel encouraged to buy a copy of this or any of his Merge releases. Tell your friends.

Since Meadow (2006), fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it’s a long story!

First, 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. Shortly after a move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping ground, the death of his tape machine led to yet another reboot. After Richard called in pedal steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new “safer” place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.

Buckner says: “Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved. Insinuations were re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of truth and voila!, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.”

And so finally, we present Our Blood…

RICHARD BUCKNER – Our Blood, on CD & LP (on Merge Records)