I Did What I Could With What I Had, by BBJr

I Did What I Could With What I Had

by BBJr

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Repress of BBJr's 2015 LP on Captcha Records
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1.	A Loving Cup 02:55	buy track
2.	Bleached Bones (in the valley) 01:44	buy track
3.	The Strength of Ill Will 02:40	buy track
4.	Heavenly Routine 04:48	buy track
5.	No Road Long Enough 04:35	buy track
6.	There Is a Place (in your dreams) 02:49	buy track
7.	Lefting 05:22	buy track
8.	Door Locks From the Outside 04:27	buy track
9.	Requiescat 01:51	buy track
10.	The Unwelcome Guest 02:45	buy track

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Bob Bucko Jr

Drew Bissell
Rick Eagle
Shawn Healy
Curt Oren

Recorded/mixed/mastered by Matt Hohmann
at Dyed in the Wool, Dubuque, Iowa

Art by Cole Pierce
Layout by Ivonne Simonds Fals

"BBJR amplifies his experimental buzz and sharpens his blues acumen on I Did What I Could... He speaks loudly and clearly through soft, open interludes, and lets free range counterlines overrun a country feel. This is Americana on broad shoulders, which is harsh enough to speak to jazz and noise, and authentic to that country-blues base. I've previously written that BBJR will tear the world to pieces with his wide-open atmospheric country record, but the truth is that this is less than a tear: Bucko carefully places each space, handing his listener a record that is as challenging and optimistic, or as mournful and honest as each Americana border."-
Nicholas Zettel (Decoder)

Originally released August 24, 2015

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released April 20, 2018

PA//117 (reissue of Captcha Records HBSP-2X-047)

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