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lucero

8/16/2018

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​Lucero (from the album Among the Ghosts available on Liberty & Lament Records)
Lucero are a live band. The Memphis, Tennessee group has roamed the world for nearly two decades, longtime fans returning to each performance as a family gathering where Lucero transform first-timers into faithful. On album, Lucero has kept the gritty, rock and soul stage sound in their songs. Their recent release, Among the Ghosts, presents blue-collar characters walking through the stories from the pen of vocalist/songwriter Ben Nichols. The title track admitting ‘the first word she said to me was goodbye’ on a snaggly riff, the chorus exploding with a full-frontal shout as Lucero plow into the album. Among the Ghosts sets down a marching beat to meet the devil at a crossroads in “Everything Has Changed” as the album reads a soldier’s letter-back-home to Tennessee addressed “To My Dearest Wife” and dives into “Bottom of the Sea” on a potent push of rhythms as Lucero play a song “For the Lonely Ones”, holding out their collective hands asking for a dance.
 
A darkness hangs over Among the Ghosts, Lucero using rock’n’roll chords to carve out tales of survival, the band storytellers chronicling hard-fought battles (“Cover Me”) and hard-shell hearts (“Loving”). Lucero strips Among the Ghosts down to barebones rock’n’soul as they offer open-hearted confessions (“Always Been You”) alongside dead-end decisions (“Long Way Back Home”), welcoming Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire, Fahrenheit 451) in as the disembodied voice acting as guide for “Back to the Night”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Lucero from AMAZON
http://luceromusic.com/
 

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