1372 Overton Park

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AlbumJan 01 / 200912 songs, 46m 36s79%
Alt-Country
Noteable Highly Rated
A-

Back when Lucero played warehouses and released scrappy attic recordings on hand-packaged LPs, the Memphis band felt like an epiphany. Granted, Lucero wasn’t the first group to smash punk zeal into country-rock tradition, but it was the best at the time, and did so on wholly punk-rock terms. Ten years on, the group…

6.8 / 10

Memphis rockers channel The Boss

1372 Overton Park might be Lucero's major-label debut, but the Memphis-based band retains all of their rough-and-tumble indie charms.

7 / 10

Lucero hail from Memphis, although you'd be hard-pressed to figure that out from their past five albums.