Album Notes

The first piano collection by Bucktown Tiger, Scritching the Ivories features a wide range of entertaining songs, performed on instrumental solo piano. The album contains contemporary pop hits, jazz and swing, and classic rock, all interpreted with imagination, played by ear, and recorded in a manner that leaves engaged listeners with much reason to sing along with the melodies. The collection is bookended by two ubiquitous Beethoven sonata movements that are sure to relax the mind.

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.