{"id":10896,"date":"2015-08-26T06:12:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:48:15","slug":"new-music-revue-luceros-tenth-album-overflows-with-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/08\/26\/new-music-revue-luceros-tenth-album-overflows-with-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Lucero&#8217;s tenth album overflows with passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10897 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lucero3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucero<br \/>\n<i>All a Man Should Do<br \/>\n<\/i>(ATO Records\/MapleMusic Recordings)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Long known in the musical circles I tend to gravitate towards as \u201cthe band that covered Jawbreaker\u2019s \u2018Kiss the Bottle,\u2019\u201d Memphis-based Lucero delivers their gritty country-rock with passion and confidence here on their tenth album.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t go thinking this is mainstream pretty-boy country-pop; this is slamming-back-whiskey-at-the-rock-club country. Songs like the amazing \u201cWent Looking for Warren Zevon\u2019s Los Angeles\u201d and \u201cI Woke Up in New Orleans\u201d paint a wonderful picture through the lyrics, and the music\u0143which brings to mind the Wallflowers at their moodiest\/best\u0143proves that these guys would appeal to fans of gritty country rock and melodic punk (hence, the Jawbreaker cover).<\/p>\n<p>The amazing feel-good \u201cThrowback No. 2\u201d evokes Bruce Springsteen in the excellent sax solo, incredible songwriting, and emotional performance. And jaw-dropping closer \u201cMy Girl &amp; Me in \u201993\u201d is both wonderfully uplifting and heartbreakingly nostalgic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucero All a Man Should Do (ATO Records\/MapleMusic Recordings) 4\/5 Long known in the musical circles I tend to gravitate towards as \u201cthe band that covered Jawbreaker\u2019s \u2018Kiss the Bottle,\u2019\u201d Memphis-based Lucero delivers their gritty country-rock with passion and confidence here on their tenth album. Don\u2019t go thinking this is mainstream pretty-boy country-pop; this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-august-19-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10898,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/10898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}