Wisconsin 2-13-63, Volume 2

Bucky’s new CD, Wisconsin 2-13-63, Volume 2 is out.  Smart folks and hipsters world wide are picking up copies, so you better too! Order now.  Roots Highway calls it  “An album with thirteen small gems . . . . a great disc” (Italy, 2009).  Bucky’s latest offering travels the landscape of original American roots music, skillfully drawing on honky tonk, folk rock, straight ahead rock ‘n roll, R&B and countrypolitan. Big songs, a big voice and crafty arrangements wrapped in lonesome steel guitars, twangy Telecasters, the whirl of the B-3 organ, jumbo acoustic guitars, in-the-grove percussion, jazzy trumpets, punchy bottom end, and adept harmonies.     

Wisconsin, 2-13-63, Volume 1

“Beautiful songs and arrangements. Halker has offered us an especially successful CD.” (Concerto, Austria, August 2006) The songs stylistically range from straight country, to jazz, to jingly-jangly pop rock, to New Orleans R&B, to Tex Mex, to straight-ahead rock. There’s string sections on a few tunes and horns galore on others, plus ample doses of vocal harmonies, pedal steel guitars, mandolin, electric guitars, Hammond B-3 organ, and bits of dobro and lap steel.  Read more…