Lucero / Ben Nichols "In the Heart of the Mountain" Les Claypool Mudhoney have been releasing music

Mudhoney have been releasing music for 35 years now and have aged like fine wine

Lucero lead singer Ben Nichols and keyboardist Rick Steff spent a day at Grammy Award winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang's Southern Grooves Studio in Memphis

and confidence at every turn

attacking each with a ferocity that will surprise even longtime fans

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Lucero / Ben Nichols "In the Heart of the Mountain" Les Claypool Mudhoney have been releasing musicBen 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