Artist description Jeffrey Luck Lucas is a San Francisco based "post-western" singer/songwriter.

Music Style alt-country, post-western, low-lonesome, singer/songwriter

Musical Influences Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Chet Baker, Tejano music, Ry Cooder, the Velvet Underground

Similar Artists Alejandro Escovedo, Gillian Welch, Townes Van Zandt, Calexico, Jessie Sykes, Willie Nelson

Artist History Jeffrey Luck Lucas was a founding member of the Morlocks, a seminal garage band (on Midnight, Epitaph, and Voxx records) in the early-mid 80s. After getting himself an education--from divorces, whiskey, and the laws of physics--he sat down to write the songs that were singing in his heart. He formed the Heaveners in 1996 under the initial inspiration-- though not content-- of Gram Parson's idea of a 'Cosmic American Music'...and remembrances of long highway drives listening to Hank with his grandpa.Eventually the "low down blues" drove him down darker highways and into suspect midnight cantinas that he's never left. Enter 2002, Jeffrey, with a band of like-minded devils and spirits, haunting and haunted,take to the stages and roads of the world.

Group Members Jeffrey Luck Lucas: vocals, guitars, cello; Chris Mullhauser: guitar, harmony vocals; Adam Anderson: lap steel, Fender Rhodes, harmony vocals; J. J. Russell: bass; Jason Smith: drums

Instruments acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, drums, mandolin, cello, pedal and lap steel, Fender Rhodes,shot glasses

Albums Calene (5 song e.p. of demos with members of the Heaveners), Hell Then Divine (in progress)

Press Reviews Jeffrey Luck Lucas is a dusty-voiced troubadour with degrees in cello and composition and a heart trapped in the borderlands of someone else's memory. His cowboy ballads are slow, sweet, and quiet, whistling through a world of endless horizons, blood-orange sunsets, dry throats, and unremitting loneliness. Too kind, weary, and sensible to struggle anymore, Lucas offers solace and sympathy to those who still try, treading a psychic road hardened by the boots of other sweet-voiced ramblers like Townes Van Zandt and Mickey Newbury. Jeffrey Luck Lucas opens for Luminar, Waycross, and PBR Street Gang on Friday, Dec. 27, at the Great American Music Hall at 8:30 p.m. by Silke Tudor, SF Weekly 12/24/02

Additional Info In the studio now making our debut full-length recording.

Location San Francisco, California - USA

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