This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio with pedal-steel guitarist Buddy Cage (New Riders Of The Purple Sage) and drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Buckner kicks off a co-headlining tour with labelmate David Kilgour (the Clean) on August 16 in Los Angeles. In the meantime, Buckner will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Buckner: I have stacks of homemade notebooks that I’ve kept over the years. Some, I made maybe 20 years ago at a temp printing job I had in San Francisco for a few months; some are remnants of former sketch books or journals, bought new and then slowly mutated as use and page-ripping ensued. I keep them all until the last page is used. Some only have the front and back covers intact, saved for reasons I can’t explain. Others, re-read at strange and vulnerable moments, have come to panicked and untimely ends, thrown into wood-burning stoves and fires when the contents have proven privately embarrassing, sentenced to silence, taking my simple meanderings with them.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fni6dnaxbk
