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Lucero's 'Among The Ghosts' Does A Little Musical Demolition

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Lucero's 'Among The Ghosts' Does A Little Musical Demolition

July 26, 2018 • Lucero, now 20 years strong, captures some of its raw live energy in a way the band hasn't done since its first handful of albums.

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Lucero On World Cafe

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October 30, 2015 • Hear the Memphis rock band perform personal songs from its new album, All A Man Should Do.

Lucero On World Cafe

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

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Songs We Love

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

June 15, 2015 • 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.

02Went Looking For Warren Zevon's Los Angeles

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World Cafe

Lucero, Live At Ardent Studios

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January 16, 2013 • 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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Music Interviews

Lucero's Ben Nichols Plays 'Blood Meridian'

January 16, 2009 • 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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Mountain Stage

Lucero On Mountain Stage

February 7, 2011 • 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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January 20, 2010 • 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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