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"Will- So YOU'RE the one responsible for slinging this CowPunk onto my desk! - Well...I just totally love it, dude! Very good stuff... And thanks! That's JUST the type of stuff I'm looking for these days..."
-Johnny Black
Music Dir. High Plains Public Radio

 

"These cowgirls have got the stuff! The Buckerettes add a fresh new sound to our Western Music lineup at Heartland Public Radio"
George Fair;

 

Even cowgirls get the blues…
by sandi tomlin-sutker

Summer 2006

But these girls just “wanna have fu-un!” And while they’re at it, they want to break a few stereotypes, publicize a few local issues, remind us all that we don’t have to be perfect to get out there, and oh, at the same time, play and sing some fantastic music!

Julie and I, along with our summer intern Emily Perry, met with these cowgirls (who call themselves the Buckerettes) to find out who they really are. The Buckerettes (Robin Cape, Deb Criss, and Roberta Greenspan) played at our Summer’s Eve Celebration while the crowd danced their toes off. We, and the partygoers, fell in love with these women and their music, so we looked forward with great expectation to learning more about the individual women and the group article.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

The Buckerettes make a name for themselves while having fun
Jaime McKee

Asheville Citizen Times Sept 19, 2008

 

ASHEVILLE — It’s difficult for most bands to make a name for themselves in Asheville, but The Buckerettes have done just that over the past four years. Robin Cape, Deb Criss and Roberta Greenspan make up the group and have been having a blast performing together. The band will be playing at The Orange Peel for their CD release show of their self-titled album (on Friday Sept 26).


Question: How did you guys get together, and when did you guys form the Buckerettes?

Cape: It was actually 2004. It was around the presidential election. And Pasty Keever was running for an office, and we had been playing music as just friends. Somebody asked us to play for a political event. We were joking around that we were “bucking” the political system, so we were the Buckerettes. We kind of liked the image of the cowgirl, too, because I think that so many people resonate with the idea of a cowgirl.

Q: When did you start working on the self-titled album?

Cape: We actually went into the studio last fall. We knew we wanted to do a second CD, and then we had some life happen.

Q: Do you have any memories that stick out from recording the CD?

Criss: For me, the memories of recording it, one of the children I had raised was killed in a car accident. One of the songs is to her, called “Meta Rides.” Two months later, her mother, who was my partner, got breast cancer. This affected all of us, because we were all very good friends. She has just passed away. So there are two songs that are death-birth attributes. This whole CD was this major birthing process. Plus, we were all going through a lot of strange life situations that were just very intense.

Cape: It was a very intense time and music was this place where we could process losing these people we loved and this creative energy that we shared. I don’t think there are warm and fuzzy memories around this CD. It was a struggle.

Criss: It kept making us reflect on how to go through change in a balanced way, through total chaos. It’s kind of psychology, spiritual, some comedy. You have to have it all to make it through.

Q: Describe your live show.

Cape: It’s not boring. We mix it up so it’s not just a bluegrass show and after four songs you think you’ve heard them all. You don’t know what we’re going to do next.