event
Lucero
Also Playing: Shooter Jennings and Hierophant
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Tue Apr 13
7 pm
Lucero, Shooter Jennings, and Hierophant at Bluebird Theater
Lucero weren’t the first punkers to go country, but they have done it better than most. More a decade on, the Memphis band hasn’t changed much in personality: The group remains a hard-working, hard-touring bunch and frontman Ben Nichols a charming, (usually) heartbroken country-rock crooner. But, of course, no one who starts out as an alt-country band seems to stay there, and Lucero’s major-label debut, 1372 Overton Park (released last fall), proves that. Gone are the blatant Son Volt-isms of its early work, and in their place is a more nuanced and compelling roots-rock. The big-label budget provides some nice flourishes—like lots of horns, courtesy of soul legend Jim Spake—but Lucero remains at its scratchy best. To enter to win tickets to this event, send an e-mail to rsvpdenver@theonion.com with “Lucero” in the subject field and your full name in the body.
Bluebird Theater 3317 E Colfax Ave, Denver/Boulder, CO
Lucero weren’t the first punkers to go country, but they have done it better than most. More a decade on, the Memphis band hasn’t changed much in personality: The group remains a hard-working, hard-touring bunch and frontman Ben Nichols a charming, (usually) heartbroken country-rock crooner. But, of course, no one who starts out as an alt-country band seems to stay there, and Lucero’s major-label debut, 1372 Overton Park (released last fall), proves that. Gone are the blatant Son Volt-isms of its early work, and in their place is a more nuanced and compelling roots-rock. The big-label budget provides some nice flourishes—like lots of horns, courtesy of soul legend Jim Spake—but Lucero remains at its scratchy best. To enter to win tickets to this event, send an e-mail to rsvpdenver@theonion.com with “Lucero” in the subject field and your full name in the body.
Updated 03/23/2012
