Buckner, Richard: The Hill
Buckner, Richard: The Hill
Format: CD
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Artist: Buckner, Richard
Label: Merge Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 673855035628
Genre: Rock
On the 100th anniversary of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Merge is reissuing the epic it inspired: Richard Buckner's The Hill. The Hill started in 1996 in an old garage that had been converted to The Ranch Olancha Motel, a dusty place near the mouth of Death Valley, between Lone Pine and Dunmovin, California. Buckner, who was en route to Tucson, Arizona, to record what would become Devotion & Doubt, stayed a week in a room with no phone, no television, carrying his guitar, a four-track recorder, and a copy of Masters' Spoon River Anthology. He tinkered with a few of the book's poems, put them on a cassette, and forgot about it until an acquaintance discovered it in his truck four years later. Beset with writer's block and looking for a distraction, Buckner would find in the tape the spur he needed. Recorded in Edmonton, Alberta, and Tucson, The Hill converts Spoon River poems to music.
Tracks:
1.1 Mrs. Merritt
1.2 Tom Merritt
1.3 Elmer Karr
1.4 Ollie McGee
1.5 Fletcher McGee
1.6 Julia Miller
1.7 Willard Fluke
1.8 Elizabeth Childers
1.9 A.D. Blood
1.10 Oscar Hummel
1.11 Nellie Clark
1.12 Johnnie Sayre
1.13 Dora Williams
1.14 Reuben Pantier
1.15 Emily Sparks
1.16 Amanda Barker
1.17 The Hill
1.18 William + Emily
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
