In 2022, Richard Buckner launched Extractions, a newsletter that dispatches weekly digital postcards to subscribers. The first post was about “A Chance Counsel,” the opening track of Buckner’s 2004 album and Merge debut Dents and Shells, which was reissued on white vinyl in 2019. In addition to the text recollection, there is an acoustic version of the song recorded in his attic.
Future Extractions will include serial-form fiction and non-fiction, as well as more unreleased music.
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There are three kinds of American folk artists: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America’s landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the sombre-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1994. —Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian, 2004
