As choppers whirred over Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Ethan Buckner could feel the pulse of anger at injustice boiling over in the streets outside his window in Venice as he wrote Eyes on the Prize. The uprisings evoked age-old indignation, too familiar grief, and yet there was also a hopeful energy, that something had finally clicked, and change was within our collective grasp. Eyes on the Prize, with its lyrical homage to Alice Wine’s 1956 civil rights hymn, seeks to capture and amplify that revolutionary energy in an indie folk/pop anthem for our turbulent and consequential times.

Eyes on the Prize

Ethan Buckner’s second single Treading Water embraces existential questions about how to stay afloat within life’s chaos. Produced by grammy nominee Justin Glasco (Paris Paloma, The Lone Bellow), the track is a spacious, soaring, and organic indie folk/pop anthem for everyone just trying to make sense of it all.

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Here's a song I wrote for my brand-new niece, Luna!

Sweet Light (Song For Luna)

LA songwriter Ethan Buckner’s indie/folk pop project The Minnesota Child is all about finding “the beauty in both the dark and the light” (Impose). His forthcoming LP, produced by Justin Glasco (Wild Rivers, The Lone Bellow),is by far Buckner’s most introspective, vulnerable, and exploratory work.

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