Buck Meek performing during the Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Tour at the ACL Live Moody Theater in Austin, Texas on February 15, 2023. (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)
Writing these songs was a process of creating talismans— little prayers and visions from within the constant flux of pain, healing, and discovery that I could return to for perspective and share with those in need.” - Buck Meek
Producer and engineer Andrew Sarlo (who produced the first four Big Thief LPs, all of Nick Hakim’s LPs, and contributed as a co-producer on Bon Iver’s i,i) agreed to record Buck Meek’s second full length LP, Two Saviors, under his conditions that they make the album in New Orleans during the hottest part of the year, spend no more than seven days tracking, all live on an 8-track tape machine with only dynamic microphones and no headphones, not allowing the players to hear back any takes until the final day.
The band, featuring Adam Brisbin (guitar), Mat Davidson (bass, pedal steel, fiddle), Austin Vaughn (drums), and Buck’s brother Dylan Meek (p ano, organ), set up in a Victorian house one block from the Mississippi River and worked within these limitations, encouraging every recording to be imbued with the living, intuitive, and human energy of a first take.
Great show.Buck Meek shared the stage with Big Thief at the ACL Live Moody Theater. They continue across the United States with the last stop at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York on March 2, 2023.
I have seen Buck meek twice in the past 12 months and both shows are some of the best I've seen in some years. He's great and his band is on point. Do not miss it!
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