Buck Curran // Bobby Lee

No Love Is Sorrow is the latest album by American guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the Alt-folk duo Arborea and as a Solo Artist. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including Red Planet (SAAH 2011) (Rolling Stone Magazine Best 'Under-the-Radar' Albums of 2011, Guitar Player Magazine Editors Top Pick 2011), Fortress of the Sun (ESP-Disk 2013) (All Music Favorite Folk & Favorite Singer-Songwriter Albums 2013, Acoustic Guitar Magazine Best Acoustic Albums of 2013, Echoes Best of 2013 Listeners Poll). Buck has also produced several various artists compilations: We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho (2010), Basket Full of Dragons - a Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II (2016), Ten Years Gone: A Tribute to Jack Rose (Tompkins Square 2019), Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans (2023), along with the archival live recording; Robbie Basho Live in Forlì, Italy 1982 (2018).

Buck has developed his intimate, intense and engaging approach to live concerts through two decades of playing and touring extensively throughout the US, UK, and Europe with Arborea and Solo. Festival highlights include: Green Man Festival, Moseley Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hopscotch Festival, etc). He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock from the 1960s (Robbie Basho, Bert Jansch, Peter Green, Tim Buckley, Sandy Denny, etc.)

In 2016 Buck released his first solo album Immortal Light, followed by Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas (listed among the 'Best Albums of 2018' according to Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard (Los Angeles). In April of 2020 Curran released his third solo album No Love Is Sorrow. Later that month he was interviewed by Jason Woodbury for Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. In May 2020, Premier Guitar Magazine published a feature article and NPR published a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at Buck's apartment in Bergamo, Italy. No Love is Sorrow was also listed among the 'Best Albums of 2020' by Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard. In 2023 Curran released Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, an album of selected improvisations from 2017 to 2022.

Bandcamp - https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/
Bert Jansch Foundation - https://youtu.be/YRxu5hcFR3Q
Winter Solstice 1 (for Steffen Basho) https://youtu.be/ORdOaC9-wqU
Arborea NPR Tiny Desk https://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152709325/arborea-tiny-desk-concert
Acoustic Guitar Magazine https://acousticguitar.com/learn-to-play-buck-currans-song-for-liam/
Premier Guitar Magazine https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/buck-currans-transcendental-folk-guitar

Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale's analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson's sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and broken drum machines keep time with the universe…