Buck Curran’s Immortal Light reviewed by Jesse Jarnow

Curran’s first album under his own name invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural.   For those who dig their acoustic folk on the mystic side, there’s guitarist Buck Curran’s solo debut, Immortal Light. One-half of Arborea, Curran’s first album underhis own name invokes…

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Buck Curran interviewed by Folk Radio UK

  Check the original interview at http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2016/09/interview-buck-curran/ Those that have followed the psych-folk scene over the years will be more than familiar with guitarist Buck Curran, one-half of Arborea (alongside Shanti Deschaine). Buck has just released Immortal Light, his solo debut. It was one of our Featured Albums of the Month very recently, and Thomas Blake summed the…

The Rushings on Obsolete Recordings

We are very happy to announce the release of The Rushings Nashville West Sessions via Obsolete Recordings. The Rushings feat. Buck Curran (Nashville West Sessions) by The Rushings   iTunes https://itunes.apple.co m/us/album/rushings-nashville- west-sessions/id1161848807 Bandcamp https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-r ushings-feat-buck-curran-nashv ille-west-sessions Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/obsoleterecordings/love-sick-mess_the-rushings-featuring-buck-curran Facebook https://www.facebook.com/therushings/

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Basket Full of Dragons on Paghead Nation

“If John Fahey is the Mississippi River of “American Primitive” acoustic steel-string guitar playing, Robbie Basho is the Ganges. If Fahey is the Everest, Basho is the Fuji. Though overshadowed in life and death by his fellow Mid-Atlantic area native, Basho—he was born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr. in 1940 and died at age 45 in 1986—has been the subject…

Buck Curran’s Immortal Light on Dusted Magazine

“Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence: you can hear Curran’s admiration for guitar gnostic Robbie Basho in the notes and spaces between them. Yet perhaps the most striking passage is a borrowed one, a cover of Creedence’s “Bad Moon Rising,” whose acoustic setting doesn’t blunt apocryphal imagery but rather sharpens it. Fogerty…