Richard Buckner- The Hill (CD)
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.
Tracklist:
- Mrs. Merritt
- Tom Merritt
- Elmer Karr
- Ollie McGee
- Fletcher McGee
- Julia Miller
- Willard Fluke
- Elizabeth Childers
- A.D. Blood
- Oscar Hummel
- Nellie Clark
- Johnnie Sayre
- Dora Williams
- Reuben Pantier
- Emily Sparks
- Amanda Barker
- The Hill
- William + Emily
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.
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.
Tracklist:
- Mrs. Merritt
- Tom Merritt
- Elmer Karr
- Ollie McGee
- Fletcher McGee
- Julia Miller
- Willard Fluke
- Elizabeth Childers
- A.D. Blood
- Oscar Hummel
- Nellie Clark
- Johnnie Sayre
- Dora Williams
- Reuben Pantier
- Emily Sparks
- Amanda Barker
- The Hill
- William + Emily
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.