Artist: Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
Album: Something Real
Bitrate: 249kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Royal Potato Family
Genre: Rock
Size: 72.62 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 45sec total
Rip Date: 2016-03-25
Store Date: 2016-03-11
Track List:
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01. Surprise 4:26
02. Something Real 3:26
03. Set Me Down On A Cloud 3:21
04. Don't Want To Fly 4:36
05. Ugly Color 7:10
06. I'll Make Love To You Anytime 3:33
07. Georgia 4:02
08. Everything Is Fake 3:30
09. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear 4:41
Some Flowers In Your Hair)
Release Notes:
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Lukas Nelson & The Promise of The Real was a band that always drifted in and out
of my periphery, though I knew them in name only. The tie to Lukas NelsonÆs
father, Willie Nelson, brought on expectations of something in that vein, as
well as the bandÆs recent collaboration with Neil Young on his album ôThe
Monsanto Years,ö another album I didnÆt listen to. So when I pressed play on
Lukas Nelson & The Promise of The RealÆs ôSomething Realö I was blown away by
what I heard: a straight-shot rock and roll record that pulls no punches.
The album is the third by the group, though the first since their introduction
into a higher spotlight with Uncle Neil. Nelson seems to know this album will be
the first of his that a lot of people listen to, and the band opens up with the
aptly titled ôSurpriseö and proceeds to brand themselves to your eardrums with
its razor-sharp sound.
ôSurprise, you didnÆt expect me did you?/ IÆm climbing through your window and I
only got timeö howls Nelson over the wave of riffs from his brother and
guitarist Micah Nelson in the chorus, his voice resonating like a bluesier Bruce
Dickinson from Iron Maiden. Bassist Corey McCormick delivers a swelling bass
line the band attaches to in-between the crashing chorus, to which percussionist
Tato Melgar and drummer Anthony LoGerfo help texture with bouts of rhythm. The
mixture of salty with the sweet is infectious and the band is firmly buried into
your skull for the rest of the album.
The bandÆs sound has a simplicity to it that produces an instinctual urge to
want to pump your fist and shout in the name of rock. The smile coming over your
face as you listen to MicahÆs blood-pumping solo should do. ôIÆll Make Love To
You Any OlÆ Timeö is as sexy and forward as the title implies with the groove
making it irresistible to grab the hips of your closest lover. There is
complexity though, simmering underneath the simple elements of power chords and
a full-throttle tempo, ôEverything is Fakeö exemplifying this with its delicate
weaving of guitars that blast into the stratosphere, the solo being the best
guitar part on the album. If it was easy to sound this good with no frills there
would be a lot more music like this, but Nelson and Co. are in a league of their
own.
Besides capturing some great music, ôSomething Realö also is all about capturing
the bandÆs attitude. There is a tenacious, underdog streak in NelsonÆs voice
that blazes a path and leads his band straight into the world ahead. It was this
hell-bent-on-doing-what-we-want worldview that certainly drew Neil Young to want
to play with them, brothers-in-arms flipping the bird to the world. They team
together for a bristling cover of Scott McKenzieÆs ôSan Francisco,ö turning an
anthem in the flower power movement to a pearl of rock music. LetÆs also not
forget he comes from the ilk of one of the original outlaws of music, Willie
Nelson, a man who created his own radical sound in the Texas desert after the
Nashville establishment tried to keep him straight-laced.