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Jeffrey Luck Lucas
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Out of 19 votes - Similar Artists: Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, Lee Hazlewood, Ian Moore, Tom Heyman
Out of 19 votes
Editor's review
A blur of cheap whiskey and late, sleepless nights thickens the haze of despair and self-doubt embedded in the music of Jeffrey Luck Lucas. His scratchy voice stews and simmers underneath thick, slow-crawling arrangements, the whole experience coming off like a murky hallucination bubbling from some urban swamp-puddle at your feet. Dark and intense.
Biography
JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS is past redemption. His is the music of an eternal after-hours 4 a.m. confessional replete with the sins, cantinas, and ghosts wandering the lost highways of the heart.
A former member of the seminal 1980's garage band THE MORLOCKS (Epitaph, Voxx, Midnight), Jeffrey Luck Lucas is also a classically trained cellist who has appeared on records by Neurosis, Pat Ryan, High Water Rising, Steve Von Till, Chuck Prophet, Barbara Manning, and others.
In addition to his stunning solo debut titled Hell Then Divine, produced and engineered by Desmond Shea (Neurosis, Tarnation, Court and Spark, Dieselhead, Virgil Shaw), Jeff is featured on Tract Records' Eye of the Beholder V4 compilation as well as their I Am a Cold Rock, I Am Dull Grass Will Oldham tribute, released in Spring 2004. His song "Cascade" is also featured on the covermount CD of issue #14 of the ultra stylish British music magazine "Comes with a Smile".
After getting himself an education--from divorce, whiskey, and the laws of physics--he sat down to write the songs that were burning and breaking his heart. Eventually these lower-than-lows drove him down darker highways, through dire experiences, only to create the scenic backdrop for his beautiful and dark, divinely ominous music. Jeffrey Luck Lucas creates music that is alternatively slow, dark, cinematic, tragic, intensely lustful and lovely as well as heartbreaking. These are songs that evoke visions of desert emptiness, lonliness, bitter love, and sweet-- but deadly-- passion: country torch and border music from a dream. A hallucinatory western spirit in the headlights, there and then gone.
