Buck 65 - "Mono No Aware" https://buck65.bandcamp.com/track/mono-no-aware #Buck65 #hiphop #rap #Bandcamp #music

Buck 65 - "Turf Rider" https://buck65.bandcamp.com/track/turf-rider #hiphop #rap #Buck65 #bandcamp #music

Bon ce coup-ci je crois que #Buck65 est vraiment de retour, avec un vrai album bien gaulé – et comme par hasard ça sort pile pour un #BandcampFriday.

https://buck65.bandcamp.com/album/super-dope

A bunch of music videos have been shot in the blocks around where I live. "Zombie Delight" from Buck 65 comes to mind first.

https://youtu.be/NCUdRUjeM-c

#Buck65 #Halifax

https://youtu.be/qQnS6QxVu0M

Now the hills are alive and the motor is dead
That man has a zero floating over his head

#jukebox #poetry #buck65

15 years ago, #Buck65 @buck65 at @lamaroquinerie @Paris @NuitsAlligator https://www.photosconcerts.com/buck-65-paris-maroquinerie-2008-02-12-nuits-alligator-2316 #La Maroquinerie #PhotosConcerts #RobertGil

I'm fully pro year-end lists - the longer and more idiosyncratic the better! So here's mine.

(I feel like a doof using this many hashtags but I know it's a thing here so…)
#music #musodon #wilco #camilacabello #davidford #aurora #kikagakumoyo #kylalagrange #bobvylan #lissie #titusandronicus #bigthief #themountaingoats #mitski #midlake #theweeknd #willow #buddyguy #buck65 #ghost #ashleymcbryde #wetleg #gabriels #saysueme #starcrawler #noahkahan #lykkeli #messa

(10/10) That's it from me! For further reading, be sure to check out the links to the various Bandcamps and Spotifies above, as well as the following Discog pages I liberally scanned through

https://www.discogs.com/artist/300478-Graeme-Campbell?type=Credits&subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0
https://www.discogs.com/artist/212254-Charles-Austin?type=Credits&subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0
https://www.discogs.com/artist/333511-Dale-Murray?type=Credits&subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread

(9/10) Not to belabor the point, but I do find it weird how immediately I label a song like "The Suffering Machine" as "rap" when it shares just as many qualities with older talking blues songs. Part of this is the other songs that surround it on Buck 65's album, which are typically more "rap-ish" than this one. Maybe that's all it takes: if it wasn't for that kind of context I could easily see a song like "Another One Bites The Dust" getting tagged as "rap" instead of "classic rock" (and visa verse for Run-DMCs cover of "Walk This Way").

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #queen #rundmc

(8/10) That brief glance at these persons discographies makes it all the more interesting that recorded so many of Buck 65's albums and played on so many of his tracks. It's a sign of how shaky genres really are: Buck 65 is as country as "Hot Rod Lincoln" is rap. The little fences we put up around CD racks is a service to the customer, not to the musician: the only people playing to a specific "genre" are pop musicians and producers who have (smartly) learned how to target a specific group of consumers.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2sZjmnS1BSoc1svOu5P8LM?si=64da7ac861c34bfd

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #country

(7/10) The single best thing I discovered from this meander through the Nova Scotian music scene is the album Things Have Changed by David Myles. This is another Charles Austin and Graeme Campbell production, and Dale Murray is featured on track 3, "Where I Want To Be." The entire album is absolutely worth a listen: a chilled out mid-point of a blues-jazz-country Venn diagram. If you squint you can see how this production team also made that first track: just swap out jazz with rap and you're at least part of the way there.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5yocE0NY1Ab7bQOkL2kwLU?si=1_nwdvozRTytlKHMPxp6aw

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #davidmyles

(6/10) While Dale Murray seems best known as a musician, Charles Austin is a huge figure in Canadian music production, leading three different production studios: Ultramagnetic Studios (where Secret House Against The World was recorded), Echo Chamber, and Ocean Floor Studio. One of the albums he produced is the first one I noticed scrolling through Discogs. I won't pretend I have any idea who No Bodies are, but the album art is a copy of one of my favorite jazz albums, Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. This is not a jazz album, but another rocker, initially released only on cassette and now thankfully on Bandcamp.

https://no-bodies.bandcamp.com/album/no-bodies

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #nobodies

(5/10) More up my alley is Dale Murray's work on the album Matt Mays & El Torpedo. Dale plays his pedal steel on the track "Good People," and that same album was produced and mixed by our old friends Charles Austin and Graeme Campbell. Online, the song seems seems best known for the song "Cocaine Cowgirl," which is a simply fantastic rock song; that outro solo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDWD9Gv-PE

https://mattmays.bandcamp.com/album/matt-mays-el-torpedo

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #mattmays

(4/10) Dale Murray has also recorded prolifically with Christina Martin. The two are co-credited for the album Wonderful Lie, which features a cover of one of my favorite ABBA songs, "The Winner Takes It All", and a Leonard Cohen song I've never heard of, "Tonight Will Be Fine" (somehow, from the title alone I knew it was a Cohen track).

https://open.spotify.com/album/1GMpLDzvAaquhpXnviYRji?si=zB1SydxxS4CXSQUEHPbV5Q

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread

(3/10) Going through the Discogs for these persons, I found... nothing I was familiar with. Not surprising: all three are involved almost exclusively with Canadian musicians. Dale Murray, for example, is credited with 83 "Instruments & Performance" credits on Discogs. Some of these, like the album Brighter Lives, Darker Side are his own. Many others are as a session musician. For example, his credit as "Pedal Steel Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals" on Adam Puddington's For The Meantime.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5vH1KLMJQuMvZeJ1VLcK0r?si=0oOV2r83RKqV4KgBn6oRwQ

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread

(2/10) Delving deep into session musicians, I got curious about who exactly played on that track. "The Suffering Machine" isn't built off of samples: it has string arrangements, pedal steel guitar, and a whole mess of (ironically) Americana signifiers. The album was produced in Nova Scotia, where I'm focusing in on three particular personnel. Graeme Campbell, Charles Austin, and Dale Murray. The latter two are credited with guitar on this and other tracks on the album: pedal steel and electric, respectively. The former two are credited as the producers and those responsible for the album's stellar music.

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread

(1/10) I have no idea how I first discovered it, but one of my favorite rap songs of all time is "The Suffering Machine" by Buck 65, off of the album Secret House Against The World. Remember that 1 guest rap verse that Tom Waits did back in the 2000s? Buck 65 is a fractal of that song stretched over decades: a Nova Scotian evolution of rap music that sounds like nothing else I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMCAIj2H844

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread

(6/10) While Dale Murray seems best known as a musician, Charles Austin is a huge figure in Canadian music production, leading three different production studios: Ultramagnetic Studios (where Secret House Against The World was recorded), Echo Chamber, and Ocean Floor Studio. One of the albums he produced is the first one I noticed scrolling through Discogs. I won't pretend I have any idea who No Bodies are, but the album art is a copy of one of my favorite jazz albums, Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. This is not a jazz album, but another rocker, initially released only on cassette and now thankfully on Bandcamp.

https://no-bodies.bandcamp.com/album/no-bodies

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #nobodies

(5/10) More up my alley is Dale Murray's work on the album Matt Mays & El Torpedo. Dale plays his pedal steel on the track "Good People," and that same album was produced and mixed by our old friends Charles Austin and Graeme Campbell. Online, the song seems seems best known for the song "Cocaine Cowgirl," which is a simply fantastic rock song; that outro solo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDWD9Gv-PE

https://mattmays.bandcamp.com/album/matt-mays-el-torpedo

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread #mattmays

(4/10) Dale Murray has also recorded prolifically with Christina Martin. The two are co-credited for the album Wonderful Lie, which features a cover of one of my favorite ABBA songs, "The Winner Takes It All", and a Leonard Cohen song I've never heard of, "Tonight Will Be Fine" (somehow, from the title alone I knew it was a Cohen track).

https://open.spotify.com/album/1GMpLDzvAaquhpXnviYRji?si=zB1SydxxS4CXSQUEHPbV5Q

#rap #novascotia #buck65 #thread