Some bands can sing inside a barn or on a door step or in a trashcan and it'll sound good. Ben Nichols owes a lot of that to his voice. At once grizzly beyond his years and drowned in a bottle, Nichols' pipes create imagery of a dusty americana. Of graveled roads and pickup trucks, whiskey bottles and jukeboxes. That's all I need to hear. Cue the record. Get me a beer.
These tracks represent the rough mixes for Lucero's first s/t album, along with some unreleased tracks from the same session. They were invited to record at Jim Dickinson's Coldwater, Mississippi farm/recording studio, just a step outside Memphis (and near Hernando, for you North Mississippi All Stars fans). Dickinson -- who built his reputation as a session player for the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, a producer for Big Star and the Replacements, a sometime solo artist, and patriarch of a small musical dynasty that includes sons Cody and Luther Dickinson -- remains a spellbinding raconteur and sharp-tongued sage of Memphis music.
LUCERO - Coldwater Sessions [2000/2001]
02 All The Same To Me (Coldwater Sessions)
03 A Dangerous Thing (Coldwater Sessions)
04 Dodgin Bullets (Coldwater Sessions)
05 Drink 'Till We're Gone (Coldwater Sessions)
06 Was That You I've Been Kissin? (Coldwater Sessions)
07 It Gets The Worst At Night (Coldwater Sessions)
08 All Sewn Up (Coldwater Sessions)
09 Raising Hell (Coldwater Sessions)
10 Banks Of The Arkansas (Coldwater Sessions)
11 Better Than This (Coldwater Sessions)
12 All These Love Songs (Coldwater Sessions)
13 Hold Fast (Coldwater Sessions)
14 No Roses No More (Coldwater Sessions)
15 Instrumental (Coldwater Sessions)
16 Blue And Gray (Coldwater Sessions)
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Love me some Lucero. This rules. Thanks!
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