Falkner's

Falkner's well-known by musicians -- he's worked with Air, Cheap Trick, Brendan Benson and Paul McCartney, to name just a few -- but his brilliantly crafted and performed power-pop has never managed to find a significant audience I wrote about his career at length here.

Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable Tony Sachs 2011

Falkner's well-known by musicians -- he's worked with Air, Cheap Trick, Brendan Benson and Paul McCartney, to name just a few -- but his brilliantly crafted and performed power-pop has never managed to find a significant audience I wrote about his career at length here.

Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable Tony Sachs 2011

After a decade in the musical wilderness, 2010 seems to be the year that Falkner's luck is changing for the better.

Tony Sachs: Author (Still) Unknown: The Brilliant Music and Star-Crossed Career of Jason Falkner 2010

Somehow, Falkner's work avoids the cliches of the bitter should-have-been-star.

Tony Sachs: Author (Still) Unknown: The Brilliant Music and Star-Crossed Career of Jason Falkner 2010

At the end of Refining Fire, for example, there's a sentence in which Falkner's coat droops in her hand.

the plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face truepenny 2008

Crunchy rockers and gorgeous ballads, hooks and harmonies, Falkner's records seemed to have something for everyone, and critics went nearly universally ga-ga for them.

Tony Sachs: Author (Still) Unknown: The Brilliant Music and Star-Crossed Career of Jason Falkner 2010

Chalmers command up in Lafayette, Falkner's Regiment is camped at the mouth of Tippah, so Br. MacDaniel who was at Shiloh last Sabbath informs me,

Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957

Park's regiment (Falkner's) passed through Pontotoc tuesday going northward: they say to Holly Springs.

Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957

He was a member of Falkner's Regiment, and as they were charging a battery was killed dead by a ball in the head, when he was either in 12 feet or 12 yards of the battery.

Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957

He grew rapidly worse, and for five weeks the doctor and Falkner's wife nursed him through the fever.

Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police James Oliver Curwood 1903