event Lucero
Also Playing: Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
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Sat Jul 31
7:30 pm
Lucero and Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit at Minnesota Zoo
Lucero isn’t the first punk band to go country, but it's done it better than most. More than a decade on, the Memphis band 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. Jason Isbell surprised a lot of people when he announced he was leaving Drive-By Truckers, but fans of his contributions to the band knew that his decision was far from career suicide. Isbell’s self-titled 2009 sophomore effort sees him with backing band The 400 Unit, comprising mostly Alabama-based musicians, and staying both musically and geographically staid in the Heart of Dixie.
Minnesota Zoo 13000 Zoo Blvd., Twin Cities, MN
Lucero isn’t the first punk band to go country, but it's done it better than most. More than a decade on, the Memphis band 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. Jason Isbell surprised a lot of people when he announced he was leaving Drive-By Truckers, but fans of his contributions to the band knew that his decision was far from career suicide. Isbell’s self-titled 2009 sophomore effort sees him with backing band The 400 Unit, comprising mostly Alabama-based musicians, and staying both musically and geographically staid in the Heart of Dixie.
Updated 02/09/2011
