{"id":17320,"date":"2013-06-27T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2013-06-27T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:50:37","slug":"listen-to-new-richard-buckner-song-when-you-tell-me-how-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-06\/listen-to-new-richard-buckner-song-when-you-tell-me-how-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to New Richard Buckner Song &#8220;When You Tell Me How It Is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckner2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17328\" alt=\"buckner2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckner2.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckner2.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckner2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckner2-401x400.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-05\/traitor-new-richard-buckner-song\/\">As we&#8217;ve written before<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardbuckner.com\/\"><strong>Richard Buckner<\/strong><\/a> has written some of the best songs ever penned in the singer-songwriter canon.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a crafty lyricist who can split you open and patch you up in one fell swoop.\u00a0 In September <strong>Buckner<\/strong> will release new album <strong>Surrounded<\/strong> on <strong>Merge Records<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Buckner<\/strong> has released the first song from the album entitled <em><strong>When You Tell Me How It Is<\/strong><\/em>, which you can listen to below.\u00a0 The new album is produced by <strong>Tucker Martine<\/strong> (The Decemberists, R.E.M., Neko Case), and on the new song one hears a different approach and a broader spectrum of sounds (&#8220;<strong>Surrounded-Sound<\/strong>&#8220;?).<\/p>\n<p>Buckner&#8217;s report on the proceedings is, as usual, insightful and hilarious:\u00a0 &#8220;Throwing out the &#8216;tricks and trades&#8217; of previous efforts, [I] hunkered down at home and chose a few unfamiliar pieces of gear\u2014a Suzuki QChord electronic autoharp and an Electro-Harmonix POG2 pedal\u2014to create basic tracks and open up more sonic possibilities. &#8216;The best outcomes happen sometimes when I\u2019m unfamiliar with the tool that I\u2019m using <strong>(imagine MacGyver wearing a dog cone)<\/strong>.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song begins with twisted-electro-carnival sounds that reveal a ventricle rhythm that segues into Buckner&#8217;s distinctive vocals and beguiling lyrics.\u00a0 The song bodes very well for the rest of <strong>Surrounded<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can pre-order the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/store\/store_detail.php?catalog_id=948\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F97876126\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve written before, Richard Buckner has written some of the best songs ever penned in the singer-songwriter canon.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a crafty lyricist who can split you open and patch you up in one fell swoop.\u00a0 In September Buckner will release new album Surrounded on Merge Records.\u00a0 Buckner has released the first song from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}