专辑简介
The second piano collection by Bucktown Tiger, The Purring Piano features a kaleidoscopic variety of popular songs, performed on instrumental solo piano. In The Purring Piano, Bucktown explores new genres of music, such as country, blues rock, and heavy metal, expounding on the versatile stylistic variety Bucktown is known for. Interpreted with creativity and played by ear in a melodic fashion, The Purring Piano is sure to engage the inner emotions of its audience, taking listeners from laughter to tears and back again, track by stirring track. Selections by Beethoven start and end The Purring Piano, as Beethoven works bookended Bucktown's first piano collection, Scritching the Ivories.Bucktown takes his moniker from the nickname of his hometown of Brinkley, Arkansas, where he was born and raised and where his family still lives. Brinkley's high school mascot is the tiger, an animal whose gracefulness, strength, and unwavering willpower Bucktown greatly admires and aspires to. A poet and pianist since grade school, Bucktown was always full of creative talent, but it was online social networking that provided him the catalyst to create music about and for the communities that consume a big part of his life. Since then, Bucktown has performed concerts and pieces at conventions and charity events from coast to coast.Bucktown feels that his music should be a reflection of the life that he knows and lives. Knowing that we can make more money, but we can't make more time, Bucktown believes that we should spend our time like it's our time, and he strives to do that each and every day, both in his music and in his life.