Richard_Buckner-Bloomed-(Remastered)-2CD-2014-404

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2014-03-19

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Artist: Richard Buckner
Album: Bloomed
Bitrate: 230kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Merge
Genre: Folk
Size: 145.66 megs
PlayTime: 1h 24min 44sec total
Rip Date: 2014-03-19
Store Date: 2014-03-14

Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Blue And Wonder                  3:47
02. Rainsquall                       3:49
03. 22                               3:59
04. Mud                              3:12
05. Six Years                        3:12
06. This Is Where                    3:46
07. Gauzy Dress In The Sun           3:11
08. Daisychain                       3:07
09. Desire                           3:51
10. Up North                         2:47
11. Surprise, AZ                     3:40
12. Cradle To The Angel              3:37

Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. The Last Ride                    2:53
02. Settled Down                     4:53
03. The Worst Way                    4:08
04. Emma                             6:00
05. Hutchinson                       4:07
06. Surprise, AZ                     3:10
07. Blue And Wonder                  4:29
08. Still Lookin' For You            3:52
09. Up North                         2:36
10. Six Years                        3:26
11. Gauzy Dress In The Sun           3:12

Release Notes:
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The March entry in our 25th anniversary reissue series is Bloomed, the 1994
debut album from Richard Buckner. The album will be remastered and released on
CD and 180-gram vinyl. Both formats will include a CD containing 11 bonus tracks
of radio sessions, live performances, and original recordings of songs that
appeared on future releases.

Spin magazine described Buckner as ôequal parts Bay Area bohemian and dust bowl
traditionalistö and named Bloomed one of its best albums of 1994, while
Pitchfork wrote, ôItÆs a traditional outsider-country record in the lineage of
Townes Van Zandt. BucknerÆs voice is all honey and oak, his guitar style
elaborately twanging, his constant subject matter heartache.ö

Richard Buckner provides some background on the album:

Bloomed was originally (erroneously?) released on an unnamable German label in
1994. I was living in San Francisco at the time, having just moved out of a
residential hotel and into the 1906 hilltop prefab that adorns the cover. At the
time, I was heading a band called The Doubters. We were playing high profile
events such as The Covered Wagon SaloonÆs Musical Barstools, but werenÆt making
much headway. We had been turned down consistently every year by SXSW, but I was
somehow finagled in as an unannounced guest onto an already unofficial SXSW
showcase created by Butch Hancock at his gallery in downtown Austin. There, I
met up again with Lloyd Maines, who agreed to produce my first record.

Maines and I met in Lubbock, TX, a few months later, where we worked with
Lubbock musicians in a small recording studio walled in wooden shingles Sharpied
with bible passages from various church groups that also enjoyed working there.
It was 112░F the morning I arrived under the suspicious (Californians are merely
B-grade yankees) gaze of downtownÆs Buddy Holly statue. That first night there,
it hailed so hard that heavenÆs angry pellets were storming in under my motel
door. It only let up for a few moments that first night, allowing me to run
across the street to get a butter burger and fries to go. We finished four days
later and I flew back to San Francisco, dismembered the band, and embarked on a
tour that would last about 20 years (or a few days, if you count what I actually
remember).

NothingÆs changed. IÆm still dodging the sky and busking to strangers.

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