Sitting outside of Tartine Bakery on a Thursday afternoon, Lucero’s Ben Nichols and Brian Venable stand out like a couple of blue-collar Southern sore thumbs among their Hollywood surroundings. But ...

Being beloved but not a household name has served Lucero well. "Over the last 24 (years), we've been really lucky we never got too famous, so we were always able to do exactly what we wanted to do at ...

After 17 years of playing and staying together, the members of Lucero are family. Cranking out albums and touring hard throughout their tenure, they've diversified their sound and grown an equally ...

Lucero will perform Friday night at Boot Barn Hall in Colorado Springs. As a band with a quarter-century of gigs to its credit, Lucero has downshifted its touring ambitions in recent years. These days ...

Shit runs deep between Lucero and Orlando, deep enough to earn the Memphis country-rockers honorary citizenship (actually, frontman Ben Nichols did live here for a short while back in the late 2000s).

Lucero frontman Ben Nichols is trying to recall the first Little Rock show with his Memphis-based group. "This would have been in '98 or '99. There were still a lot of punk rock shows down at ...

Their songs are maddeningly simple — a few basic chords sans any tricky guitar solos or much in the way of showmanship. Yet for such lack of pretension and flair, Lucero’s work is endlessly relatable ...

In Columbia, we sit about 400 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee and soak up the sound waves. Its not-too-distant neighbor, Nashville, might be called Music City USA, but Memphis keeps America ...

As a band with a quarter-century of gigs to its credit, Lucero has downshifted its touring ambitions in recent years. These days it’s out on the road for a crisp 100 dates or so, a considerable amount ...