Arthur Buck 2 - Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck return with the follow up studio album to 2018's debut.
Gritty-voiced singer and songwriter Joseph Arthur and former REM guitarist Peter Buck had been friends and occasional collaborators for years before they teamed up to record an album under the name Arthur Buck - This is the follow up.
In three days, the pair knocked out eight tunes, and Arthur Buck made their live debut the next evening at a benefit concert for local firefighters. Not long after, Arthur invited Buck to sit in at a gallery show in Los Angeles, and the pair wrote three more songs at the soundcheck and played them that night. Four days after the show in L.A., Arthur and Buck spent seven hours in a studio in Portland, Oregon, recording the songs they had written during their recent bursts of activity. After the two musicians added overdubs in their home studios, they turned the tracks over to Tchad Blake for mixing, and the Arthur Buck album was complete. New West Records released the set in June 2018, and Arthur Buck booked a tour of Europe and North America in support.
