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Songs We Love: Lucero, 'Went Looking For Warren Zevon's Los Angeles'

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Songs We Love: Lucero, 'Went Looking For Warren Zevon's Los Angeles'

It's the record Ben Nichols wanted to make at age 15, but Lucero's new album shows the band's grown fully into itself. Hear the first single, a wistful meditation on missed off-ramps.

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Lucero, Live At Ardent Studios

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Lucero, Live At Ardent Studios

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The popular Memphis rock band is featured in this installment of "Sense of Place." Listen to a stripped-down set from Lucero, recorded live at Ardent Recording Studios.

Lucero On World Cafe

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Lucero's Ben Nichols Plays 'Blood Meridian'

Nichols just released his solo debut, The Last Pale Light in the West. Its songs were inspired by Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, a novel about a teenage boy's adventures around the Texas-Mexico border in the mid-1800s.

Lucero's Ben Nichols Plays 'Blood Meridian'

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Lucero On Mountain Stage

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Lucero On Mountain Stage

The Memphis-based road warriors in Lucero have been traversing the country and playing gritty, countrified rock music for 13 years. At Mountain Stage, bandleader Ben Nichols responds to audience requests by playing a song for his mom.

Listen Now: Lucero In Concert

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Lucero: 'Rebels, Rogues' Unite

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Lucero: 'Rebels, Rogues' Unite

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A love letter of sorts to the band's hometown of Memphis, Lucero's recent 1372 Overton Park finds the group expanding its sound with fleshed-out arrangements. In this session for World Cafe, Lucero plays gritty alt-country rock.

Lucero: 'Rebels, Rogues' Unite

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