This is a crosspost from my blog, ninebullets.net. I thought I'd post it here 'cause 95% of the folks reading ninebullets have every Lucero recording ever made, but I got to thinking that a good portion of Daily Loaf's readership probably hasn't even heard of them. So I present you with this Lucero crash course, Mixtape style. I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you at the rock show when they come to Czar on Friday, November 13 (don't worry, I'll remind you again).
One of my favorite twitter friends, Romeosidvicous, posted a really nice four mix-tape introduction to Lucero yesterday and was kind enough to allow me to re-post it. I'll let him explain the idea behind the tapes:
"I have made many Lucero CDs over the years to turn people on to their music. Today I decided that I would be lazy and simply make three one hour playlists and post them here. Now I can simply give people a URL instead of spending time making plastic discs that people just rip and file away somewhere. Three one-hour playlists turned into four playlists as I decided to toss in some of Ben Nichols’ solo work as well as some tracks from his prior band, Red 40. I enjoyed putting these together and I hope you will enjoy listening to them. You can get all of the music here, on the original discs, from the Lucero Store."
Below the cut are the first two. If you enjoy them and want to check out the other two, head over to Romeo's blog.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.