With its images of “brakelights showing” and other beacons in the night, “A Chance Counsel” opens Richard Buckner’s seventh album with a wee-hours scene of emotional desolation. Yet as lonely as it is in that darkness, it’s also a comfort zone for the alt-country maverick. Over 10 songs that explore the end of his marriage to his former drummer, Penny Jo Buckner, he shifts between feelings of weary resignation and ache-filled wistfulness, landing somewhere in-between for “Her”, the album’s stirring centrepiece.
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