Originally sold as a tour-only item and limited to 2,000 copies, this 1996 recording is a stark and intimate "unplugged" session with Richard alone on guitar. While many tracks were later re-recorded with a full band for the "Devotion And Doubt" release, these eleven aching and beautiful songs are exclusive to this release.

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Lauded by critics and adored by fans, Richard Buckner is one of the most heartfelt and honest songwriters you will ever hear and his first release on Merge Records (and sixth full-length) is a departure of sorts for this modern troubadour. Still full of all the heartbreak of his previous work, Dents and Shells adds some powerful elements with a few full band tracks framing Buckner's muscular lyrics and powerful voice. The new album was recorded in Tucson (Wavelab Studios) and Austin (Tophat Studios), with ...   [ read more ]

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Richard Buckner's earthen voice and rustic country-folk guitar playing have always evoked a vaguely early American sense of wistfulness and longing, as if his oaken vocal strength and equally age-worn storytelling were haunted by ghosts much older than his fickle alt-country affiliation would suggest. On The Hill, Buckner takes the lives of those very spirits -- as described in E.L. Masters' classic 1915 poetry narrative Spoon River Anthology -- and inhabits them in one bleak, sometimes harrowing song cycl...   [ read more ]

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