Richard Buckner is touring this fall to support three out-of-print albums reissued digitally by Merge in March. The alt-country songwriter’s career having evolved so much over the past 15 years, these should be dynamic performances showcasing the salvaged material.

Buckner regales us with the origins of the albums, Bloomed, The Hill and Impasse on the Merge blog. Bloomed was recorded in a “wooden shingles Sharpied with bible passages” in Texas before he could even get on the SXSW bill in 1994. The Hill was recorded on a cassette tape in 1996 and then forgotten; a girlfriend found it in his truck four years later, and he took it to the studio. Buckner recorded Impasse in his basement with “a live-in drummer and a number of cats” in 2002.

He is working with Merge to release an album in 2010.

Download “Gauzy Dress in the Sun” off of Bloomed.

Richard Buckner Fall Tour Dates:

09.15 Bloomington, IN: The Bishop             

09.16 North Manchester, IN: The Firehouse

09.17 Madison, WI: Forward Music Fest      

09.18 Iowa City, IA: The Mill           

09.19 Chicago, IL: Empty Bottle      

09.20 Rock Island, IL: Daytrotter Presents at Huckleberrys            

09.21 Urbana, IL: The Canopy Club

09.22 St. Louis, MO: Billiken Club at SLU  

09.25 Orlando, FL: The Social          

09.26 St. Augustine, FL: Cafe Eleven           

09.27 Columbia, SC: The Whig         

09.28 Mt. Pleasant, SC: Village Tavern         

09.29 Atlanta, GA: The Earl  

09.30 Charlotte, NC: The Evening Muse      

10.01 Winston-Salem, NC: The Garage        

10.02 Asheville, NC: The Grey Eagle           

10.03 Hickory, NC: Fanjoy-Labrenz Gallery