Violinist and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has lived in Belgium since 1970. Now in his 80s, he has maintained what one press release called “a level of obscurity”, which sees him appear on lists of most underrated artists.
He took a musical hiatus from 1984 until 1996 before returning to live performance and recording. He also writes poetry and fiction, and it’s those strands which inform the words on the opening song and de facto title track ‘River Barge’. Mojo described his music as “Arcadian folk surrealism,” and that’s a decent description of the slightly abstract violin and guitar backing behind this atmospheric poem.
Recorded in 2002, not long after returning to music, this album is a set of songs which…