Indie legend Buck Meek is back

LEGENDARY guitarist and songwriter Buck Meek returns to Australia with his band on a solo East Coast tour that stops at the Eltham Hotel on March 3.

Meek last toured these shores with the indie cult outfit Big Thief on its capital city tour in 2022. Since then, the artist has been compiling and touring the gems of his third solo album, Haunted Mountain.

Texas-born and raised, and playing blues and folk as a youngster, Meek went on to the Berklee College of Music and later moved to New York City, busking at subway stations to make ends meet.

The artist formed Big Thief in 2015 and recorded five studio albums to critical acclaim, including the 2019 release U.F.O.F., nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy awards.

Going solo, he released the eponymous Buck Meek in 2018, followed by Two Saviors in 2021. In the latter, Meek explored his feelings on the human condition through characters and their stories.

A DIY review said the record was ‘a feather-light collection of alt-country, packed with pedal steel, lilting melodies and Texan burr’. The release, delayed by two years due to the pandemic, prompted the reviewer to add that it ‘was a soothing antidote to everything else 2020 has thrown our way’.

Haunted Mountain was written as the artist traversed mountains and ranges, from the cold springs in the Serra da Estrela of Portugal to the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, the Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps, and the Santa Monica range he now calls home.

Meek brings new and old songs with his band and singer-songwriter Germaine Dunes, his partner in music and life, from 6.30pm. For information and tickets, visit elthampub.com.au/music .