Buck Meek

Writing these songs was a process of creating talismans— little prayers and visions from within the constant flux of pain, healing, and discovery that I could return to for perspective and share with those in need.” - Buck Meek

Producer and engineer Andrew Sarlo (who produced the first four Big Thief LPs, all of Nick Hakim’s LPs, and contributed as a co-producer on Bon Iver’s i,i ) agreed to record Buck Meek’s second full length LP, Two Saviors, under his conditions that they make the album in New Orleans during the hottest part of the year, spend no more than seven days tracking, all live on an 8-track tape machine with only dynamic microphones and no headphones, not allowing the players to hear back any takes until the final day.

The band, featuring Adam Brisbin (guitar), Mat Davidson (bass, pedal steel, fiddle), Austin Vaughn (drums), and Buck’s brother Dylan Meek (p ano, organ), set up in a Victorian house one block from the Mississippi River and worked within these limitations, encouraging every recording to be imbued with the living, intuitive, and human energy of a first take.