Richard Buckner - Great American Music Hall - SF, CA 2-5-97

intro

slow down old world

4 am

blue and wonder

raze

desire

home

ed's song

song of 27

lil wallet picture

still lookin' for you

here

your lone journey

Blackbird Harmony - "Hardwood Exits Demos"

Most of you are aware that my band, Blackbird Harmony, released a new album on Yer Bird Records last month. You can go here to order it or listen to the entire thing in streaming audio. Shortly after signing on with Yer Bird and before heading into the studio I came home after a long night at Love & War in Texas and, with just an acoustic guitar, recorded demos for all of the songs that would be on the record. Available here exclusively and for the first time ever are those demos. Enjoy.

Hardwood Exits (Demo)

Caution & Dispatch (Demo)

Samaritans (Demo)

Turpentine (Demo)

Searchlights (Demo)

Tonight, If Its the Last Time I See You (Demo)

Blankets (Demo)

Hello (Demo)

The Sound of Fury - Broadcast 10

Click here to listen to the broadcast in streaming audio.

Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Part 1)
She & Him - Sweet Darlin'
South San Gabriel - From This I Will Awake
Ralph Stanley - All I Ever Loved Was You
Kevin Shields - City Girl
Daniel Folmer - Shutyrmouth!
Doc Watson - St. James Hospital
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange Form of Life
Tammy Wynette - The Ways to Love a Man
Jack Rose - Cross the North Fork
She & Him - Change Is Hard
Headdress - Blanket of Golden Fields
Sonic Youth - Expressway to Yr Skull
Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Part 2)

Click here to download the broadcast as an mp3

The Rebirth - 6/08

Here's To You, Pancake

i watch the fireflies carefully navigate the heavy autumn dusk - stormy blue and seldom green

the warmth taken with it--even the shattered boards logged with cool moisture and pieces of blood and skin cashed for splinters

the grass, grown pale from too many lightning bolts -- reduced to shadows...

...the strange house with no lights - - eyes adjusted and waiting

the sound of footsteps...a single blast from a shotgun and our ears ring for so long that the silence goes unnoticed...

...even now

Listen to that sound? Hear that sound? Getting in an out of trees? That flop-flop sound? Mm, that sound will sure mistake you for turkeys. Listen. Hear that flop-flop. Limbs breaking. Hear that good flop, then? Listening to that gives me the turkey fever. Mm, I wish there were as many turkeys as there are buzzards.

"...you’re all I have, my boy
You are my life, my pride, my joy

I know it’s hard to understand
Why did we ever start?
We’re more like strangers now
Each acting out a part
I have laughed, I have cried
I have lost every game
Taken all I can take..."

day and night...when you aren't here