1372 Overton Park
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Album • Jan 01 / 2009 • 12 songs, 46m 36s • 79%
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…
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.