{"id":4862,"date":"2011-05-19T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2011-05-20T00:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:06:19","slug":"traitor-new-richard-buckner-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-05\/traitor-new-richard-buckner-song\/","title":{"rendered":"“Traitor”–New Richard Buckner Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cognoscenti know. Richard Buckner is the real deal.\u00a0 We’ve loved Buckner’s work from the beginning.\u00a0 If you haven’t heard it, we highly recommend you pick up Buckner’s album, “Devotion + Doubt<\/strong>,” which is one of the all-time greats (listen to Lil Wallet Picture<\/strong><\/em> from that album, way below).<\/p>\n

The cognizant have been waiting since 2006 for a new album release from one of America’s best.\u00a0 Comes now “Our Blood<\/strong>,” which Merge Records will release on August 2nd.\u00a0 There’s a reason or two it took so long for “Our Blood” to be finished and released.\u00a0 Read about it below from Merge’s press release.<\/p>\n

<\/abbr>“First, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then there was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out car that had all eyes in Buckner\u2019s small hometown in upstate New York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck. Shortly after a move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping ground, the death of his tape machine led to yet another reboot. After Richard called in pedal steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new \u201csafer\u201d place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.<\/p>\n

Buckner says<\/strong>: \u201cEventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved. Insinuations were re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of truth and voil\u00e0!<\/em>, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.\u201d”<\/p>\n

Listen to Traitor, <\/strong><\/em>the phenomenal first song off of “Our Blood” below and download it HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Traitor<\/em> is so good that Our Blood has to be one of our most highly anticipated releases of the year.<\/p>\n

Check in HERE<\/strong><\/a> to read Buckner on “Our Love” generally and Traitor <\/em> specifically.<\/p>\n

Richard Buckner–Traitor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/traitor.mp3|titles=traitor]\n

And check out one of Buckner’s all-time greats, Surprise, AZ <\/strong><\/em>(as covered by Cynthia G. Mason from The 2005 Believer Magazine Music Issue).<\/strong><\/em> The song sings first of a man (woman, as covered?) traveling home with his mother after the funeral of his father, her estranged husband.\u00a0 A relationship and a separation are sung, and he adds, “I think about him still\/When I see you all alone.”\u00a0 But his mother counters with memories of her son’s lost lover — the woman her son met when he was 23, who “let me down so far\/I never quite made it back.”\u00a0 A son and mother share their memories of lost love.\u00a0 If you’re not affected by this song and its storylines, you simply have no soul.<\/p>\n

Richard Buckner–Surprise, AZ
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/09-Surprise-AZ-11.mp3|titles=09 Surprise, AZ 1]\n

And finally, below is Buckner’s moving Lil Wallet Picture. <\/em><\/strong>Buckner knows how to grab you by the ventricles.\u00a0 Fourteen years later we’re still blown away by this song.<\/p>\n

Richard Buckner–Lil Wallet Picture
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Lil-Wallet-Picture-1.mp3|titles=12 Lil Wallet Picture 1]\n

“Underspent
\nand too young too
\nI stumbled onto a picture of you
\nyou wild bitter tale
\nall cherry oak and tears
\nas the branches looked in
\nthe summer is done
\nand we are too, dear
\npull back the drape
\nand let the silent light in
\nsoon I’ll be on that highway<\/p>\n

And damn this stretch of 99
\nthat takes so many lives
\none of them was mine<\/p>\n

Hand me that lil wallet picture
\n1985
\none more time<\/p>\n

the lights of the street
\nwhere I’d walk to you at night
\nwere so blindly lit
\nyeah, there were four little flames
\nhis, mine, and yours,
\nand the torch in the attic
\ni woke up late
\nand kissed you awake
\nand as you packed up your load,
\nthere was one last look
\nand then the U-haul broke free
\nnow the ditches are flooded over the backroads<\/p>\n

And damn this stretch of 99 that takes so many lives
\none of them was mine<\/p>\n

hand me that lil wallet picture
\n1985
\none more time
\nunderspent
\nand too young too
\ni stumbled onto a picture of you”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cognoscenti know. Richard Buckner is the real deal.\u00a0 We’ve loved Buckner’s work from the beginning.\u00a0 If you haven’t heard it, we highly recommend you pick up Buckner’s album, “Devotion + Doubt,” which is one of the all-time greats (listen to Lil Wallet Picture from that album, way below). The cognizant have been waiting since […]<\/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-4862","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\/4862","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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}