2006 CD release Europe Brambus Records, Switzerland

2006 CD Release USA Revolting Records,Chicago

Recorded at Woodside Avenue Music, Evanston, IL & Steve Yates Studio, Morton Grove

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Bucky Halker’s latest all-originals recording with guest appearances from some of Chicago’s finest musicians.

“Lake Superior alt country twanger’s superior CD . . . An exceptional CD!” (Properganda U.K August 2006)

At last! After two CDs and a decade of performing worker protest songs, as well as lecturing and writing about the subject, I was aching to get into the studio with my own songs. Late in 2003 I jumped in! I may have been too ambitious for my own good, but I really wanted to do a studio project that covered a lot of stylistic ground, relied on more detailed arrangements, and utilized the skills of several of Chicago’s best musicians.

“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. Very little overt lyrical politics on this one.

There’s guest appearances from legendary jazz violinist Johnny Frigo, mandolin master Don Stiernberg, Pickles Piekarksi (John Prine), Paul Mertens (Poi Dog Pondering & Brian Wilson), Jim Cox (Marian McPartland), Brian Wilke (Hoyle Bros.), Paulinho Garcia, Steve Rashid, James Sanders, Kat Eggleston, and Brother John Kattke (Buddy Guy’s Legends House Band). Of course, my basic core band from 2003-2005 is also here with Drew Enselman, Marshall Dawson, and Dan Polonsky.

“Wisconsin 2-13-63 is a splendid collection of Americana songs. Very agreeable indeed.” (Le Cri Du Coyote, France, November 2006)

Look for Wisconsin 2-13-62, volume 2 in 2008!