Lucero / Ben Nichols "In the Heart of the Mountain" Turntables Starting off with a bang

Starting off with a bang

Movements bring emotion to life in each note

Written and recorded in the midst of a dizzying stretch in which nearly everything about the way the band lived and worked was turned on its head

including "She Looks So Perfect

and Mdou is one of the few in his community who knows how to write it

Lucero / Ben Nichols "In the Heart of the Mountain" Turntables Starting off with a bangBen Nichols' from Lucero first solo album since 2009's The Last Pale Light in the West. Although not a concept album, the song titles in sequence do read as a kind of poem. The album features Nichols on acoustic guitar and vocals, as well as performing some of the electric guitar solos. He is accompanied by Morgan Eve Swain (The Huntress and the Holder of Hands, The Devil Makes Three, Brown Bird) on violin and backing vocals, Cory Branan on electric