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  MySpace.com - Buck 65 - nowheresville, CA - Other - www.myspace.com/buck65
My dad started calling me Buck 65 the day I was born.
bio's well spoken buck 65, your poetry makes me laugh and feel like i'm in middle school or something riding bikes and crashing into fences.
buck, just want to let you know your music is soothing to my soul..
www.myspace.com /buck65   (1407 words)

  
  Revolutionslive.com - Review: Buck 65
Buck 65 could be the by-product of a freak experiment fusing the vocal genetics of Everlast and the lead singer of Alabama 3, together in a human body that could easily double as Van Wilder's.
It was a definite showcase of what Buck 65 is capable of - despite the lack of booms and whistles that major recording artists have during their performances.
Buck 65, like so many artists, has to be seen to be truly appreciated.
www.revolutionslive.com /review-buck65.htm   (546 words)

  
 :: MVRemix Interviews - Buck 65 ::
Buck 65: I just couldn't be bothered at that point to go around and, we're talking about hundreds of people that I would have had to set the record straight with.
Buck 65: I was eight years old, and in the house where I grew up we had a rec-room in the basement with sort of this yellow-orange Shag carpeting.
Buck 65: I was living there for half a year and then I had to come back to Canada for a couple of reasons.
www.mvremix.com /urban/interviews/buck65.shtml   (5283 words)

  
 Tiny Mix Tapes Music Reviews: Buck 65 Music Review
Buck 65 is calling it a mixtape because of the way he produced it, in that he barely produced it.
Buck is childlike in his appreciation of things; likewise, it's hard to tell if he's a humble learner or a hoity-toity snob.
What Buck 65 has done is not an album of past success, but a revitalization of his previous underestimated work in hip-hop culture into something beyond the realm of strictly hip-hop.
www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/b/buck_65.htm   (2514 words)

  
 Buck 65 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Terfry, better known as Buck 65, is a Canadian Hip Hop artist, MC and Turntablist.
Buck's most recent albums have gradually moved away from his original pure hip-hop sound into territory influenced by folk, blues and electronica, with many comparing elements of his sound to Tom Waits.
Some of Buck 65's music is used on the Canadian show Trailer Park Boys, frequently in the character Julian's car.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buck_65   (1030 words)

  
 Buck 65 interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Buck eventually obliges, wearily, and not without warning the guy that he's doing him a favour, cos earlier on he 'told a guy' that he wasn't playing that song anymore.
Buck talks about the controversy of the DMCs, the merits of painting trains and digging for breaks, the familiar hiphop dogma; and he seals it with the line "I gotta keep hope alive for those who show defiance/ to hiphop as a religion, you know the science".
Tonight is a reminder of Buck's oft-forgotten sonic abilities, and a statement of conceptual intent almost juxtaposed to his challenging, yet fundamentally accessible new album.
www.dot-alt.com /buck65_int.html   (5193 words)

  
 Buck 65: Square: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Buck (government name Rich Terfry) is best known for three elements: his terrible voice (best described as chain-smoking 10 year old), his rigid flow and, most importantly, his diverse subject matter.
Buck 65 apparently doesn't have to be good-- he's that original.
Buck 65-- the Tom Waits of indie hip-hop-- makes his V2 debut.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15795/Buck_65_Square   (590 words)

  
 Textravaganza - Interviews - Buck 65
Buck 65, real name Richard Tefry, was born and raised in a small town in Nova Scotia.
Buck 65: As a kid in the late 70's, I was a member of the Kiss Army and bought all their records and paraphernalia.
Buck 65: Well, my music is just a reflection of the fact that I grew up in rural Canada and I've always been afflicted with a terminal case of honesty.
www.textravaganza.com /interviews/buck65.htm   (1037 words)

  
 Soundtest - A Website About Music Reviews
Buck 65 is a rapper who doesn't fuck about.
Buck has spent the majority of his career underground and working with the Anticon crew, making the most original hip-hop records Anticon has to offer.
Buck's rhymes and rhythms are blissful and beautiful on this segment, drawing solid attention to his distinctive voice.
soundtest.org /az/buck_65-man_overboard.htm   (857 words)

  
 Buck 65 - Language Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Then one realizes, this is a Buck 65 album, it makes little sense now, but will be clearer and clearer on each listen, and therefore become better and better.
Buck becomes a mad scientist and dissects the focal point for so much underground hatred – the evil record companies.
Little did I know that at this same time, Canada was harboring a man from Halifax named Buck 65, whose creativity would be a definition for the new movements in hiphop, and mainly Canadian hiphop.
www.ugsmag.com /revs-buck65_langarts.php   (586 words)

  
 Buck 65: This Right Here Is Buck 65 - PopMatters Music Review
Warner signed Canadian hip-hop artist Buck 65 in 2002, after he had enjoyed several years of relative success on the underground hip-hop circuit -- including a run of favored albums, a consistent touring schedule, and close ties with Oakland's Anticon collective.
Buck 65, whose real name is Richard Terfry, hails from rural Nova Scotia.
Buck 65 is doing something more ambitious: reading a tradition of American storytelling through hip-hop.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/buck65-thisrighthere.shtml   (1199 words)

  
 Buck 65: Talkin' Honky Blues: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One of the better examples of Buck's newfound propensity for more personal written works is "Sore", whose every verse serves as a testimonial to the problems in Rich Terfry's existence: he smashes his unreliable car, masturbates in a hotel room, and struggles with loneliness.
The most important facet of Buck's first truly commercial endeavor is the inclusion of a continual thematic series of songs revolving around a single river.
Treating each track as a conceptual goldmine, Buck describes the setting, stops attempted suicides, drowns by accident, falls in love with a girl with aquatic qualities, and experiences the power of a gun in a riverside town.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15794/Buck_65_Talkin_Honky_Blues   (665 words)

  
 Buck 65 News
Buck 65 and Kinnie Starr Hip hop gets remoulded and remodelled in the genre-mashing music of these two Canadian performers.
So in my books, that means the current versions of Buck 65 and Sage Francis rate lower than their older selves; that doesn't necessarily mean...
Buck 65 -- may not look like a hip-hop super star, but the rural Nova Scotian sure sounds like one.
www.topix.net /who/buck-65?scoring=r   (609 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Talkin' Honky Blues: Music: Buck 65   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While Buck 65 is More Known as a Hip Hop Artist, this Album Pretty Much Breaks New Ground by Forcing a Fusion Between Country and Hip Hop Beats and Special Attention to the Lyrics.
Buck 65 deserves the acclaim he is receiving for this disc, and he even won a Juno for best alternative album, also much decerved.
I am so thrilled to have seen Buck 65 and now to own this album- it is a shift from my usual listening scene however I am so moved by his rhythms and lyrics- he is so compelling.
www.amazon.ca /Talkin-Honky-Blues-Buck-65/dp/B0000BVL1H   (881 words)

  
 Buck 65 - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While Buck 65 has gained critical acclaim and worldwide exposure through his major label...
BUCK 65:Buck 65 raps about real stories, rhymes with real emotion and makes beats that declare the artistic validity of the sampling process.
Buck 65 - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Buck 65 Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/buck-65/412510/main   (91 words)

  
 This Right Here is Buck 65 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This Right Here Is Buck 65 is a 2004 compilation album by Buck 65.
The compilation is formed of acoustic versions of previously released songs, others culled from previous album, Talkin’ Honky Blues, as well as some new tracks.
This album represents a change in musical direction for Buck 65, from hip hop towards more folk-oriented pieces.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/This_Right_Here_is_Buck_65   (128 words)

  
 Buck 65 - This Right Here Is Buck 65 : Silent Uproar
Buck 65 is an ashtray-voiced balladeer/ DJ from Nova Scotia, of all places.
This Right Here is Buck 65 is a compilation of re-tooled, previous released material from his last several indie-label records.
After that, Buck 65’s lyrics are more straight forward, bitter-sweet tales of everyday life, dark childhoods, oh--and what sounds like the confessions of a centaur on a psychiatrist’s couch - all with dreamy atmospherics, countrified guitar and pedal and electronic beats.
www.silentuproar.com /showreview.php?ID=1333&fromarchive=yes   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Secret House Against the World: Music: Buck 65   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
"The Floor" is Buck 65 at his most candid, evoking Leonard Cohen-esque vocals as he takes on the subject of physical abuse, the somber tune lushly enhanced by everything from banjo to violin to DJ scratches.
Buck 65 just keeps reinventing himself with every new album, and 'Secret House Against The World' is perhaps the ultimate reinvention, with not a single track really describable as hip-hop (though it remains an influence).
Buck's vocal style evolves a lot, continuing its pattern of becoming less and less like rap and more like beat poetry, with his voice getting deeper compared with his early work, and even with some singing this time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009RJP3M?v=glance   (1858 words)

  
 Buck 65: This Right Here Is Buck 65 (2005): Reviews
Deft at pulling both heartstrings and party tricks, Buck 65 has peers as an emotive rapper, but he's alone in giving hip-hop such a personal, puzzling spin.
Buck ingeniously borrows from dub, metal and country to capture his characters' woozy worlds.
Buck isn't a talented rapper, but he has a gift for expressive storytelling and evokes a range of emotions with his limited, mumbling vocals.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/buck65/thisrighthereis   (511 words)

  
 Cokemachineglow.com - Buck 65: This Right Here is Buck 65
Buck’s “Centaur” lyrics are notorious and notoriously misinterpreted.
With “Centaur” Buck 65 was saying, “All you see is my huge, vulgar, obscene (“hip hop”) because that’s all you want to see.” Note: his character listens to classical music, was old-fashioned, a music lover, a poet, but couldn’t shake the stigmatic first impression that it made.
Most people saw him as Buck 65 for worse, hence the shocking pseudo-biography of “Centaur” while, underneath it all, the character as it exists in the song is actually itself a product of popular opinion.
www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/buck65_thishere2005.html   (3185 words)

  
 Buck 65 - Man Overboard - Review - Stylus Magazine
Buck 65 mines the same territory as many of his Anticon brothers - truly alternative hip-hop.
It's a sound a lot of artists are experimenting with right now, but few are nailing it the way Buck 65 is. He writes all the rhymes, delivers all the lyrics, produces every track and even scratches over top of it all.
It's funky, fun, and smart, but a lot of hip-hop is. Buck deconstructs the standards of the genre and then rebuilds it crookedly.
www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/buck-65/man-overboard.htm   (608 words)

  
 Buck 65 - Vertex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Buck 65 is either a conceptual genius or a misfit of modern hip-hop.
But what Buck has done, is create an impeccably unique album, encompassing turntablism and production to the same degree as MCing in a hip-hop mosaic.
Unlike fools such as Babu and whoever is the horrible DJ for Swollen Members, Buck compliments the track rather than overrunning it with offbeat scratches.
www.ugsmag.com /revs-buck65vertex.php   (607 words)

  
 Buck 65 Apologizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Buck 65 is setting a good example of how to handle such a situation.
Buck 65 finally brings a bit of intelligence and humanity into Hip Hop, which to originally to its underground status is a trusted and accepted form of music to many people who consider themselves to run 'against the grain' so to speak.
buck 65 atmosphere and sage francis, make me think of why i loved audio 2 BDP and others way back when and whatever you think his record and 'that' ras kass tune along with jedi mind tricks and outerspace etc are producing some of the best thought provoking hip hop in 2004..
www.hiphopmusic.com /archives/000638.html   (4137 words)

  
 Buck 65 MP3 Downloads - Buck 65 Music Downloads - Buck 65 Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In spite of sounding like it was recorded in some poorly lit cellar, Vertex is rife with bright flashes of Buck 65's subdued brilliance.
Although the overall aesthetic of the record is of a decidedly D.I.Y. flavor (with 65 handling everything from the decks to production duties), it never feels anything less than wholly authentic.
Chalk that up to 65's seemingly boundless spectrum of ideas; where other emcees might self-reflexively limit themselves (and their subject matter) to the confines of some predetermined blueprint, 65 gives listeners every neuron in his muddled brainwaves.
www.mp3.com /albums/416655/summary.html   (317 words)

  
 Amazon.com: This Right Here Is Buck 65: Music: Buck Sixty Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Buck 65 gives us a taste of what Johnny Cash might have sounded like is he were 20-something today and brought up with Public Enemy and Mos Def alongside Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley.
This is not an official LP from Buck 65, but it showcases the experimental wizardry of this iconoclast, and even further abstract directions he is willing to explore.
Buck 65 has a talent for original rhymes and word combinations.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00076OMKQ?v=glance   (1052 words)

  
 San Diego Music Scene > Fun . Sign On San Diego . Com : Live music event listings, ticket alerts, reviews, venues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After making a name for himself on the college radio circuit with his well-received hip-hop show "The Bassment," B-boy Richard Terfrey (aka Buck 65, Stinkin' Rich) secured his spot as one of Halifax, Nova Scotia's premier hip-hop aficionados.
Buck 65 drew the attention of club owners and collaborators alike, landing his first record deal in 1992 and finding underground success with 1996's "Psoriasis," which he recorded with buddy Sixtoo under the name Sebutones.
Buck 65's reflective, confrontational lyrics and street-smart sound have piqued the interest of hip-hop fans on both sides of the pond.
entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/273019   (211 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Buck off - 02.06.03
Buck 65's hate for hip-hop fuels his reinvention of it
I've got my work cut out for me." The albums in Buck 65's Language Arts series (of which Square is the fourth installment) are languid explorations of voice and mood.
Most practitioners still see hip-hop as brash and inherently confrontational; Buck 65, on the other hand, suggests that rap needn't be strident.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.06.03/music/buck65.html   (620 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: This Right Here Is Buck 65: Music: Buck Sixty Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If you aren't new to Buck then it's still to check it out as the re-recorded older tracks have much better production and the vocals sound a lot better (his voice has progressed tremendously over the years).
My favourite Buck album has to be 'Square', which, much like Prefuse 73's latest album, fuses in and out of songs quickly, but it works very well.
Buck 65 remains one of hip hop's greatest word manipulators and this album shows off his poetic talent to perfection!
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00076OMKQ   (673 words)

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