catalogue

BUCKNER, RICHARD

BLOOMED (MERGE)

BUCKNER, RICHARD - BLOOMED 69799
format:
2 CD
release:
14.03.2014
label:
MERGE
item ID:
69799
barcode:
0673855035529
The March entry in the 25th anniversary reissue series of MERGE Records 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 "equal parts Bay Area bohemian and dust bowl traditionalist" and named "Bloomed" one of its best albums of 1994, while Pitchfork wrote, "It's a traditional outsider-country record in the lineage of Townes Van Zandt.

Buckner's voice is all honey and oak, his guitar style elaborately twanging, his constant subject matter heartache."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. BLUE AND WONDER
  • 1.2. RAINSQUALL
  • 1.3. 22
  • 1.4. MUD
  • 1.5. SIX YEARS
  • 1.6. THIS IS WHERE
  • 1.7. GAUZY DRESS IN THE SUN
  • 1.8. DAISYCHAIN
  • 1.9. DESIRE
  • 1.10. UP NORTH
  • 1.11. SURPRISE, AZ
  • 1.12. CRADLE TO THE ANGEL
  • 2.1. THE LAST RIDE (RECORDED IN 1995 AT BLACK EYED PIG IN SAN FRANCISCO)
  • 2.2. SETTLED DOWN (RECORDED IN 1995 AT BLACK EYED PIG IN SAN FRANCISCO)
  • 2.3. THE WORST WAY (RECORDED IN 1995 AT BLACK EYED PIG IN SAN FRANCISCO)
  • 2.4. EMMA (RECORDED IN 1995 AT BLACK EYED PIG IN SAN FRANCISCO)
  • 2.5. HUTCHINSON (RECORDED IN 1995 AT BLACK EYED PIG IN SAN FRANCISCO)
  • 2.6. SURPRISE, AZ (RECORDED IN 1996 AT WORLD CAFÉ)
  • 2.7. BLUE AND WONDER (RECORDED IN 1997 AT KCRW)
  • 2.8. STILL LOOKIN FOR YOU-TOWNES VAN ZANDT (RECORDED IN 1997 AT WORLD CAFÉ)
  • 2.9. UP NORTH (LIVE AT THE STARRY PLOUGH, BERKELEY CA 2/25/1995)
  • 2.10. SIX YEARS (LIVE AT THE STARRY PLOUGH, BERKELEY CA 2/25/1995)
  • 2.11. GAUZY DRESS IN THE SUN (LIVE AT THE STARRY PLOUGH, BERKELEY CA 2/25/1995)