Kevin Buckley

Americana: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a week and a half away! Think of it as St. Louis Music's own official holiday, and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for a Music Award this year, introd ... More >>

Homespun: Grace Basement, Wheel Within a Wheel

Wheel Within a Wheel
www.gracebasement.com

Grace Basement's Wheel Within a Wheel: Read Our Homespun Review and Listen to a Track

Biblical prophets, Irish poets and American songwriters have all used the image of a wheel inside a wheel to speak toward some larger unity -- of many moving parts operating in a unified sphere. It's hard to know what Kevin Buckley is referencing with the title of his third LP, Wheel Within a Wheel, ... More >>

Kevin Buckley Emerges From the Grace Basement with Wheel Within a Wheel

Kevin Buckley really isn't so hard to pin down. He's a fiddler, a guitarist, an Irish folk musician, an old-time picker, a singer, a rock & roller, a producer and one of the least pretentious and most consistently crafty songwriters in St. Louis. He slips between the hard-to-master world of traditio ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 29 to May 5

Serenity now, serenity now!! What better way to start the week than with a series of nearby ground-shaking, Earth shattering construction noises to accompany a morning cup of joe? Luckily, headphones exist and a series of bookmarked live performances take me back to my quiet place. Music soothes all ... More >>

The Best Concerts in St. Louis this Week: January 22 to 27

Well, I hope you enjoyed that temporary shot of springtime over the weekend while you could! Clouds are currently unloading some major snowflakes outside, but that's no reason to get left out in the cold during this week's shows. Check out Ian Fisher & the Present's CD Release and visits from Sponge ... More >>

The Fixer: Dave Anderson's one-stop guitar shop

Video: New Grace Basement Song, Featuring Dave Anderson of Tritone Guitars

In this week's RFT, Senior Writer Roy Kasten tells the story of Dave Anderson, owner/operator of Tritone Guitars, a music community-focused repair shop (and teaching and session-work business) in St. Louis. Anderson currently plays guitar (and mandolin, banjo and pedal steel) with Tenement Ruth, Mag ... More >>

Talib Kweli, Bloc Party, They Might Be Giants and More: New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Boss Hall's High Pedigree and Low Profile

Exclusive: Listen to a the Lead Track From Boss Hall's New CD, In the Pale

In this week's print edition, we spotlighted the band Boss Hall and its debut CD In the Pale. The group features five of the most prolific performers in St. Louis: Margaret Bianchetta, Tom Hall, Bob Breidenbach, Vince Corkery and Kevin Buckley. Along with its weekly Sunday afternoon shows at the Sha ... More >>

Homespun: Union Electric

Time Is Gold
theunionelectric.bandcamp.com

Your Band is Worth Taking Seriously, Money or Not: Just Ask the Union Electric

After three years of shows and an equally accumulating number of seven-inches, St. Louis folk rock group the Union Electric releases its first full length CD Time is Gold. Members Tim Rakel, Glenn Burleigh, Melinda Cooper and Mic Boshans are more than just St. Louis music veterans; they are staples ... More >>

Woody Guthrie 100th Birthday Party, Tribute and 88.1 KDHX Benefit, 7/14/12: Review

Just One Big Soul: Woody Guthrie 100th Birthday Party, Tribute and 88.1 KDHX Benefit Off Broadway July 14, 2012 Behold the power of Woody Guthrie: A man with a trucker hat, tousled grey hair, and a thick, hearty mustache, a mustache that has seen some hard travelin', chokes out "Goodbye to my one ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: July 13 to 15

This weekend would have been the hundredth birthday of Woody Guthrie, if he'd only lived that long. To celebrate, both Plush and Off Broadway are hosting tributes -- Plush's is on Friday night and Off Broadway's is on Saturday. It was good thinking on the part of these two venues to put their shows ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 9 to 15

The Monday after Independence Day weekend is one most brutal. After a full weekend of barbecue and beer and illegal fireworks, going to work seems all the more objectionable. I'm too damned hungover on Freedom to be productive, personally. My "word of the day" today is "aliquant," which even my spel ... More >>

Jackson Browne, Chiddy Bang, Russian Circles and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Harry Nilsson Tribute At Off Broadway: What Is The Point?

Harry Nilsson, one of the very few things all four Beatles agreed on and a singer of nearly unparalleled talent, will get the tribute treatment at Off Broadway on November 26th. What Is The Point? A Tribute To Harry Nilsson will feature Nilsson sets from Theodore, Ransom Note, Edward Burch, John Kra ... More >>

Prairie Rehab

Philology
(self-released)

Homespun: Ian Walsh & Kevin Buckley

Keeping It Reel
(Mountain Rose Records)

Last Collector Standing: Kevin Buckley on His Record Label, Being "Done" with Grace Basement and Why Vinyl Persists

Jon Scorfina​Kevin Buckley is best known about town for playing in his rock outfit Grace Basement and playing as a solo artist performing traditional Irish folk music. For a time, he worked behind the scenes at Euclid Records, managing their online store, and now he runs his own label, Eastern ... More >>

LouFest, Day Two: Kim Massie and Magnolia Summer

Jason StoffKim Massie at LouFest. More photos from day two here.​Now this was the kind of church service I could get into: Kim Massie opened up day two of Loufest with a relaxed Sunday morning set heavy on gospel and what she called "inspirational songs." After kicking off with a version of "A ... More >>

Hometown Proud: The top ten local releases of 2009

May Day Orchestra Pens Second Folk Opera

The May Day Orchestra dropped me a line a few weeks ago to report that it's penned another "folk opera" and plans to debut it on Friday, October 30, at the Black Bear Bakery. Details! The first May Day Orchestra project concerned Lucy Parsons and the anarchist labor leaders of Chicago in the 1880s. ... More >>

Homespun: Grace Basement

Gunmetal Gray
(Undertow Records)

The Union Electric Posts Demos, Plays at Way Out Club on Wednesday

The Union Electric -- the new project of Bad Folk's Tim Rakel and Glenn Burleigh of Adversary Workers, among others -- just posted new demos on its MySpace page. The band recorded the songs with Grace Basement's Kevin Buckley. Click on the band name to check 'em out! .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padd ... More >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of June 9

Blueberry Hill *Bryan Greenberg, Saturday, July 18 *Gaelic Storm, Tuesday, July 21 *Dread Zeppelin, Friday, August 21 Scottrade Center *Kings of Leon, Wednesday, September 30 *Miley Cyrus, Sunday, October 4

RFT Music Awards Nominees & Showcase Performers

St. Louis Video: Tim Easton, "Lexington Jail" at Off Broadway, Wednesday, May 27

Dedicated to Jay Bennett, with a nice preface. That's Kevin Buckley on the left, by the way.

Texas Tornado: St. Louis bands make a solid showing at SXSW

Love Songs and Murder Ballads

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 10. The Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard.

Magnolia Summer CD Release Show for Lines from the Frame

D.I.Y. Now for the Future: The Undertow Collective and Magnolia Summer are using technology to modernize their D.I.Y. creative vision

Video: Vivian Girls, "Tell the World"

Tom Waits for No One

9 p.m. Friday, August 29. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

MP3 Exclusive: Grace Basement, "Girl from the North Country"

2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Local Release on a Label

RFT Music Awards Nominees: St. Louis' Best and Brightest

2008 Music Award Nominees: Best Untraditional Americana/Folk Acts

2008 Music Award Nominees: Best Pop Band

Texas Tornado: St. Louis musicians invade SXSW

St. Louis Bands at SXSW

Grace Basement Has a Bright, Shiny New Podcast

Local Motion

Homespun's top ten local album releases of 2007.

Grace Basement: Show Preview and Audio Bonus Post

If I Should Fall from Grace

Kevin Buckley steps out of the basement and the Cunninghams come home.

Cleaning Out Our Closet

Our semi-quarterly round-up of local releases.

Bauer Power

Art can change the world, and Jenna Bauer wants to show you how

Say Yes to Craic

Traditional Irish sessions at the City Museum keep things reel

Real Dalle

For local singer/songwriter Larissa Dalle, sad songs say so much