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Richard Buckner is tagged as: alt-country, singer-songwriter, folk, americana, indie

Richard Buckner is an American singer songwriter born in California, resident in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for a number of years, and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. A critically-acclaimed artist most often associated with the Alternative Country movement, Buckner has in recent albums eschewed his initial acoustic approach and displayed an increasing interest in more abstract music styles.
Buckner began his career with the acoustic “Bloomed” (1994), a lyrically dense suite of songs recorded in Lubbock, Texas and heavily influenced by that state’s tradition of whisky-soaked poet/troubadors, probably best embodied by Townes Van Zandt. In 1996, he released the major label “Devotion & Doubt,” with members of Giant Sand backing him, displaying a more adventurous, almost avante garde approach to songwriting and arranging.
Since then, he has returned to recording for smaller labels, to continued critical acclaim and cult status. His 2000 album The Hill - his first for Chicago-based indie label Overcoat Recordings - features poems from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915), which Buckner set to music. The album plays as a single track, nearly thirty-five minutes long. He returned in 2002, first with the “teaser” EP Imp...
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Top 10 Richard Buckner Songs
Ariel Ramirez
Lil Wallet Picture
Pull
Traitor
A Goodbye Rye
Home
Ed's Song
A chance counsel
Figure
Kate Rose
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Devotion + Doubt
Since
Dents and Shells
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Bloomed
Meadow
Impasse
The Hill
Impasse-ette
Sir Dark Invader Vs. the Fanglord
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