Tag: alt country

Alt.country at the Bathhouse

Amer­i­can alt.country leg­ends Richard Buck­n­er and Edith Frost are play­ing togeth­er at the San Fran­cis­co Bath­house on Wednes­day night.

There are three kinds of Amer­i­can folk artist: 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 1984 –(Sylvie Sim­mons; The Guardian, 2004)