Buddy and The Huddle
Buddy and The Huddle is a band with a cast
of revolving characters
based in the South of
Germany. The band’s
frontman, Roland Kopp,
read Cormac McCarthy’s
Suttree in German
translation and was
immediately taken by
the novel’s unforgettable characters and vivid description of Knoxville.
The band’s debut album “Music For a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called
Suttree” (released Jan. 1, 1998) was inspired by McCarthy’s novel and
partly recorded when Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll visited Knoxville in
1996. On this album, the band works with McCarthy’s gritty city scenes
and characters, brilliantly translating into music what McCarthy called
an overlooked “world within the world” of Knoxville. Even the band’s
name is inspired by the novel, as “Buddy” is a nickname for the book’s
protagonist and “The Huddle” is the name of a colorful downtown
Knoxville bar included in the novel.
During their Knoxville visit in 1996, Roland Kopp and Michel Ströll also
searched for the places depicted in Suttree and took hundreds of black
and white photographs of these locations.
Buddy and The Huddle
Buddy and The Huddle is a band with a cast
of revolving characters
based in the South of
Germany. The band’s
frontman, Roland Kopp,
read Cormac McCarthy’s
Suttree in German
translation and was
immediately taken by
the novel’s unforgettable characters and vivid description of Knoxville.
The band’s debut album “Music For a Still Undone Movie Maybe Called
Suttree” (released Jan. 1, 1998) was inspired by McCarthy’s novel and
partly recorded when Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll visited Knoxville in
1996. On this album, the band works with McCarthy’s gritty city scenes
and characters, brilliantly translating into music what McCarthy called
an overlooked “world within the world” of Knoxville. Even the band’s
name is inspired by the novel, as “Buddy” is a nickname for the book’s
protagonist and “The Huddle” is the name of a colorful downtown
Knoxville bar included in the novel.
During their Knoxville visit in 1996, Roland Kopp and Michel Ströll also
searched for the places depicted in Suttree and took hundreds of black
and white photographs of these locations.
...the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens of country, beholden to a class or a social circle...
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach —