All A Man Should Do

How has it taken this long for Lucero to record a song called “Went Looking For Warren Zevon’s Los Angeles?” Like Zevon, Lucero’s singer-songwriter Ben Nichols works within a country-rock style that favors ballads as much as rave-ups, with simple melodies that are sneakily catchy. And Nichols too has a Zevon-like way…

Lucero's new album All A Man Should Do includes a song called "Went Looking For Warren Zevon's Los Angeles" that depicts lead songwriter Ben...

On their eighth album, the band encapsulates a broader purview of Memphis’s influence than ever before.