The Luckies are playing at The Muddy Boot in Nashville, Indiana Saturday August 8th from 7:00-8:00 pm. This is an acoustic-based presentation of songs from The Best of What's New , Building Inventory as well as many new songs slated to appear on the next CD. Hope to see you there. The Luckies will also appear at Donner Park in Columbus, Indiana Saturday August 15th at 7:00 pm. Hope to see you there!
With the advent of current technology we have been able to take some video footage from The Luckies live at the Yes Cinema, and actually put it together with the album audio.The reason this is necessary is that the show was shot with a consumer grade camera, as a result the audio was obviously lacking. So instead of just letting the footage go to waste, we've started putting together some of the songs from the album with their live counterpart from the live show.So under the video section you'll find…
The Best of What’s New, the debut CD by The Luckies, was a culmination of many dreams and the emergence of a creative collective that would extend well beyond the band’s players. Initially, songwriter/guitarist Bobbie K Owens was playing a one-off gig with an ad hoc group of friends and caught the attention of the evening’s sound man David Nay. Nay, who happened to own a Roland-equipped recording studio, suggested recording the material written by Bobbie. After a time the decision was made to expand the project to include other…
Following the introduction of Dave Merris and the recording of Crazy, a pattern would emerge in which Merris would come to the studio about once every three weeks or so and the band would record the beds for a couple of new songs. During the intervening weeks all instrumental overdubs and vocals would be added and the next two songs would be prepared for Merris’s return and the subsequent recording of new beds.
There seems to be a great hunger in our North American world for that feeling of inspiration. The past year of my life has definitely been full of events that could have shot me off my saddle or kept me on the lead trail. I’m not sure how I’m going to get to my final destination but I know I am pointed in the right direction.
On our first disc,"The Best of What's New," I used a mid-eighties Fender Japanese made Stratocaster that I purchased new back in the day for everything except "Slip Away" on which I used my 1974 Les Paul for a nice clean sound.
Jerry Mihay- Amps: Mesa Boogie DC-5 & DC-3. Guitars- 1973 Les Paul, 2005 PRS Custom 22, various Stratocasters, and Takamine NP 15-C. Mike Fox- Amp: Peavey Bandit. Guitars- 2005 Fender American Stratocaster, Modulus Telecaster, and Takamine acoustic. Keyboards by Roland & Korg. Bobbie K Owens- Amp: Peavey. Guitars- Fender Custom Shop John 5 Telecaster, American Telecaster and Martin & Gibson acoustics.
The National ConversationBy Mindy GilesIt’s a question that everyone faces, but it seems more pressing now. How do you negotiate that path to your innocent essence when adulthood gets in the way? Can muscular rock ‘n’ roll music be more to us than a worn and comfortable Lazy Boy time machine to travel in every decade we get the postcard for a double-digit high school reunion? Is a restless country in perpetual anxiety even allowed the luxury of those kinds of questions these days?
The Luckies were extremely busy in the Summer and Fall of 2007 working on our second album variously called "Doctor Seven at Eleven" or "Doctor Seven and the Walking Wounded!"
After a hard Saturdayday night of rocking, 8:15 Sunday morning came really early when Bobbie K and Spoonman "Handsome Bob" Leader (modest too I must say!) came to collect Jerry with the 10 passenger limo for a road trip to Bobbie's family reunion.
The Luckies will be performing at the Save The Crump Concert in Columbus Indiana Saturday June 20th at 3:00 PM
The National Conversation
The National Conversation
By Mindy Giles
It’s a question that everyone faces, but it seems more pressing now. How do you negotiate that path to your innocent essence when adulthood gets in the way? Can muscular rock ‘n’ roll music be more to us than a worn and comfortable Lazy Boy time machine to travel in every decade we get the postcard for a double-digit high school reunion? Is a restless country in perpetual anxiety even allowed the luxury of those kinds of questions these days?