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Perfect Getaway
Author: Peter Buckley

An audio project spanning twenty years of work and the death of one of its creators has reached fulfillment with the release of “Perfect Getaway,” a two CD set combining a spoken word performance by Ashland writer/performer Peter Buckley with thirteen songs written and performed by his late brother, San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter John ... more »Buckley. “This is definitely a tribute--not only to John, but to the people who loved him and to anyone who has had to watch someone close to their heart leave this life,” Peter Buckley said. “Something very remarkable happened during the time John was dying, and this project is one of the results of it. My brother was an amazing talent and an amazing man. It has been a longtime dream of mine to produce ‘Perfect Getaway’--it is the story of his life and his exit, combined with his songs, and it feels great to be able to bring his music to the attention of a national audience.” John Buckley, who died of lung cancer at the age of 41 in 1988, began his music career in San Francisco in the late 1960s, signed first by Bill Graham and performing at S.F.’s Winterland and at antiwar events throughout the Bay Area. According to his brother, he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, recorded two albums and a movie soundtrack, but the albums were never released. He returned to the Bay Area in the 1980s and partnered with his younger brother Peter on three live performance pieces, “Wrong Move in the Right Direction,” “Irish Catholic Buddhists in a House of Ill Repute,” and “Enough Hope to Hang Your Hat On.” “The shows were all in their way similar to ‘Perfect Getaway,’” Peter Buckley said. “They mixed John’s songs with my spoken word performance pieces, and they were a hit with audiences wherever we performed. John was in a fantastic creative period when the cancer hit. And what absolutely floored me, and still does, is that his creativity kept growing even through his final days.” Two years after his brother’s death, Peter Buckley wrote and performed “Perfect Getaway” for the first time at Dell’Arte, an international theatre center based in Blue Lake, California. The show covers his brother’s passionate attack on life through childhood, the isolation of the high school years, bouts with epilepsy, misadventures in the antiwar movement, careers triumphs and setbacks, and the eventual merging of spirituality and creativity in John’s life that carried through his illness and beyond. “Perfect Getaway” has been called “a passionate and involving performance of humor, mystery, pleasure and pain which will move you deeply,” by the Northcoast Journal, and American Theatre magazine remarks that “Buckley inspires with a simple story of one life shining in death’s shadow.” Following the success of “Perfect Getaway,” Peter Buckley developed and toured two more solo shows, “What Happened” and “Bosom of Abraham.” In 1997, he moved to Ashland to focus on his long held dream of fully bringing his brother’s songs and story to a broad national audience. “The CD is something of a hybrid,” Buckley admitted. “Spoken word CDs mixed with a collection of music like this don’t exist to any great extent as far as I can tell. But there are two reasons I think this will reach people. The first is the simple fact that John’s songs are witty, soulful and just plain great. The second reason is that everyone faces a situation at some point like the situation we faced with John. It is a universal story, and what happened as John was making his exit rings true with every single person who has heard it. My hope is that anyone who has experienced loss like this will find that ‘Perfect Getaway’ will give them hope, give them a great reminder of what it’s all about at the bottom line.”

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ISBN-13: 9780970473608
ISBN-10: 0970473605
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Publisher: Dewey Street Productions
Book Type: Audio CD
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