Richard Buckner - The Hill

Richard Buckner The Hill Label Overcoat Erstveröffentlichung 01.11.2000 Format CD Lieferzeit 1 – 3 Werktage Preis 13,95 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)

Für “The Hill” vertonte Buckner 18 Gedichte aus Edgar Lee Masters´ „Spoon River Anthology“, einer Geschichte über die Toten einer fiktiven Stadt in Illinois Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Buckner selbst erzählt die bedrückenden Geschichten mit einem Maximum an Trauer und Betroffenheit, einfühlsam begleitet wird er dabei von den Calexico Leuten. Die CD besteht aus einem langen Track, man kann nicht zwischen den einzelnen Songs hin und her springen. Wahrscheinlich ist Buckner der Meinung, das man die ganze Geschichte hören muß. Sehr eindrucksvoll!
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“Richard Bucknerþs earthen voice and rustic country-folk guitar playing have always evoked a vaguely early American sense of wistfulness and longing, as if his oaken vocal strength and equally age-worn storytelling were haunted by ghosts much older than his fickle alt-country affiliation would suggest. On The Hill, Buckner takes the lives of those very spirits -- as described in E.L. Mastersþ classic 1915 poetry narrative Spoon River Anthology -- and inhabits them in one bleak, sometimes harrowing song cycle. Mastersþ small-town characters speak plainly and honestly from beyond the grave of their townþs dark secrets, and Buckner, with some backing help from Calexicoþs Joey Burns and John Convertino, translates 18 of these into miniature first-person song-portraits interconnected by vocal-less snippets of acoustic strumming and picking. The overall effect is a kind of Americana musical, one that explores not only our countryþs rich musical history but also its emotional one.” (CMJ)