Richard Buckner- The Hill
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
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