Jeremy Gluck: I Knew Buffalo Bill (LP)

Jeremy Gluck

LP

LP (Long Play)

The good old vinyl record.

Text oben: "Jeremy Gluck with Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard". Rechts: "Buffalo Bill". Porträt eines Mannes mit Hut und Schnurrbart.

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Label:: Glass Modern
Year of recording ca.:: 1986
Item number:: 12188563
UPC/EAN:: 5063176013613

* feat. Nikki Sudden & Rowland Howard

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"The first indie supergroup" (more than 20 years ago!)Featuring Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas), Jeffrey LeePierce (Gun Club), Roland S Howard (Birthday Party)and brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks (TheSwell Maps). A unique record with a rootsy, haunting sound, which mixes dark folk, swamp blues and the ghostly side ofcountry music. Expanded edition with many tracks not on the original album (demos, live material and B sides). Vinyl only reissue. Limited edition of only 600. Double LP. Liner notes by Jeremy Gluck "It was 1986, autumn. Over the years Nikki Sudden and I had discussed, planned and written songs for an eventual collaboration. Nikki was working his music full-time; I was writing and raising my kid. One day Nikki calls pretty much out of the blue andsays he is in Fairport Dave Pegg's lush Woodworm Studio recording with his brother Epic Soundtracks and Rowland S Howard, and do I want to tack a week on and do an album? I started packing. When I arrived at the studio one gorgeous afternoon, the band had just laid down the backing track to Nikki's remarkably beautiful 'Gallery Wharf'. I was awed and enchanted. I still love that song and my good fortune inperforming its only recorded incarnation is humbling. In the years since, "I Knew Buffalo Bill" has been heard more, evaluated further, loved by a few fiercely, liked by many more, overlooked by millions. The unusual combination of players and pieces, and some great production, haveearned it a niche all its own. In that time, four of its key players - Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks, Rowland S Howard and Jeffrey Lee Pierce (whom I only met briefly before and during the sessions)- have passed away. It gladdens me that our work on the album has been the cause of one excellent shared homage (Italians Circo Fantasma's "I Knew Jeffrey Lee"), and that one of its latter tracks, 'Burning Skulls Rise' (from the eponymous EP that followed the original album), was covered by Rowland and Lydia Lunch. Subsequently it has appeared on a handful ofEuropean...