Since 2006’s Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring\nfor new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from\nreleasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it’s a\nlong story!

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First, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then\nthere was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a\nburned-out car that had all eyes in Buckner’s small hometown in\nupstate New York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck.\nShortly after a move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping\nground, the death of his tape machine led to yet another reboot.\nAfter Richard called in pedal steel and percussion players and put\nnew mixes on his laptop, his new “safer” place was burglarized.\nGoodbye, laptop.

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Buckner says: “Eventually, the recording machine was\nresuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were\npatched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved.\nInsinuations were re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths\nof those final OCD utterances were expelled like the final heaves\nof bile, wept-out long after the climactic drama had faded to a\nsomber, blurry moment of truth and voilà!, the record was done, or,\nlet us be clear, abandoned like the charred shell of a car with a\nnice stereo.”

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