Review: Buck Curran’s ‘Far Driven Sun’ Reunites a Beloved Sobell Guitar with a Master of Acoustic Atmosphere

After many years apart, Buck Curran and his Stefan Sobell Model 1 “Butterfly” are reunited on Far Driven Sun (ESP-Disk’, Obsolete Recordings, Echodelick Records), and they’ve never sounded better together. Originally built for Martin Simpson—who used it to record When I Was on Horseback (1991)—the guitar has a beautifully balanced tone, a delicatelyContinue Reading

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone

You’re the product of stability on a planetary scale. Around 12,000 years ago, Earth warmed from an ice age into the relatively consistent climate that allowed humans to adopt agriculture, literally putting down roots. That stability, though, is now shattered, as more than 8 billion people rapidly heat the planet,Continue Reading