Richard Buckner

Richard Buckner's Tragic Troubadour

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Richard Buckner's work has always been haunted by frustrated hopes and thwarted emotion. His latest album, The Hill, grew out of a literary...

Richard Buckner's 'Bloomed' Gets Expanded Reissue

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2014

Continuing Merge Records' big 25th anniversary celebration, the North Carolina indie label has unveiled plans for yet another deluxe reissu...

Richard Buckner

Surrounded

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2013

Richard Buckner's mind is often not a pleasant place to be inside. After establishing his reputation during the alt-country insurgence of t...

Richard Buckner Announces 'Surrounded' LP

PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2013

The lead-up to Richard Buckner's 2011 album Our Blood was hampered by a laptop thief and a murder investigation, but his latest sessions th...

Richard Buckner

Our Blood

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2011

As a singer-songwriter whose work has always been infused with darkness and intrigue, it seemed a cruel irony that one of the reasons for R...

Richard Buckner Talks the Murder Investigation and Setbacks That Led to the Delay of 'Our Blood'

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2011

Fans of enigmatic singer-songwriter Richard Bucker may be wondering why it has taken so long for him to release a follow-up to his last alb...

Richard Buckner Returns with <i>Our Blood</i>

PUBLISHED May 4, 2011

Richard Bucker was prolific during the '90s and early 2000s, but it's taken the alt-country veteran five years to follow up his 2006 LP Mea...

Richard Buckner

Meadow

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Mixing dusty rockers with mid-tempo folk pop, Richard Buckner leads an all-star band through another reliable collection of melancholy musi...