Uncle Lucius announce UK Shows and release brand new album Like It’s The Last One Left

UNCLE LUCIUS ANNOUNCE UK SHOWS AND RELEASE BRAND 

NEW ALBUM LIKE IT’S THE LAST ONE LEFT

New Music Video For “All The Angelenos” Out Now

 NASHVILLE, TN. / LONDON, UK. – (8th December, 2023) – After a five-year hiatus, Uncle Lucius have, on Friday December 8^th, released their brand new album Like It’s The Last One Left via Boo Clap Records/Thirty Tigers, alongside an official music video for "All The Angelenos", available to watch:

  

Written and recorded in the band’s hometown of Austin, Texas, Like It’s The Last One Left isn’t just a return to form: it’s an expansion, bolstering Uncle Lucius' mix of amped-up Americana and greasy roots-rock with string arrangements, adventurous production, and the sharpest songwriting of the group's career.

During the years following the band’s farewell tour, their audience continued to organically grow, highlighted by the placement of their song “Keep the Wolves Away” in an episode of Yellowstone and its subsequent gold and platinum certifications. After a few years on hiatus – with a fresh outlook and a deep well of new ideas – the band members began to shake off their collective rust and blueprint songs that mirrored their career and current status, hitting on themes of resolve and resilience.

"There are no limitations this time around," says frontman Kevin Galloway. "We're exploring different areas of American roots music, and we're doing it our own way. There's a new perspective that comes with stepping away from something for a while, then coming back to it. You can see it with new eyes."

To celebrate the release, they also announced that they will be heading across the pond to play UK shows in Manchester, Nottingham and London in October 2024.

Tickets are available to purchase and the full dates can be found below:

 

Uncle Lucius UK Tour Dates

Tuesday 29 October 2024 - Night & Day Cafe, Manchester (26 Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JN) £22.50 Ticketweb

Wednesday 30 October 2024 - The Bodega, Nottingham (23 Pelham Street, Nottingham NG1 2ED) £22.50 Ticketweb

Thursday 31 October 2024 - Oslo, London (1A Amhurst Road, Hackney London E8 1LL) £25.31 Ticketweb

Uncle Lucius previously gained critical praise from the likes of The Austin Chronicle, No Depression, and Saving Country Music for their signature style on albums Something They Ain’t (2006), Pick Your Head Up (2009), And You Are Me (2012), and The Light (2015). But Like It’s The Last One Left is perhaps the group’s finest and most cohesive album to date.

Beginning with "Keep Singing Along" — an atmospheric blast of funky-tonk, anchored by a seize-the-day message that suits the band's 2020s resurgence — Like It's The Last One Left offers everything from larger-than-life anthems (the stomping "Civilized Anxiety," the heartland rocker "Trace My Soul") to laidback, loping Tex-Mex ("I'm Happy"). 

"Tuscaloosa Rain" channels Dusty Springfield and Burt Bacharach, complete with swooning orchestration from the Tosca String Quartet and stacked harmonies from the vocal duo US (Sir Woman, Wild Child). US also appears on "Holly Roller," a track that's equal parts roadhouse rock song and gospel-worthy freakout, while fellow Austinite Cody Braun (Reckless Kelly) plays fiddle on "All the Angelenos," a humorous jab at the carpetbaggers who've relocated to Austin in the hopes of capitalising on the city's boom town status. 

Things come to a close with "Heart Over Mind," another track that balances Uncle Lucius' adventurous Americana with gorgeous melodies, symphonic strings, and the croon of Galloway's voice.

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Uncle Lucius announce UK Tour Dates for Autumn

UNCLE LUCIUS ANNOUNCE 

UK TOUR DATES FOR AUTUMN

Austin southern rock band Uncle Lucius return to the UK in October/November this year

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“The Light is a record whose songs, both melodies and lyrics, are beautifully and thoughtfully constructed.” - The Daily Country

“...the all-encompassing, world weary zest of The Light proves now more than ever that the band is more than ready for their time in the spotlight.” - For Folk’s Sake

AUSTIN, TX: Following the success of their UK tour dates in January and their latest single 'Age of Reason', Uncle Lucius have announced a UK tour in support of their fourth album The Light. Starting on October 31st at Greystones in Sheffield, the tour also stops at Whitney, London, Brighton, Glasgow, and Leicester.

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UK Tour Tour Dates

31st October 2016 - Greystones, Sheffield (Greystones Road, S11 7BS) £15:40 Event

1st November 2016 - Fat Lil's, Witnet Website (64 Corn Street, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BS £11 Event

3rd November 2016 - O2 Academy 2, Islington (Angel Central, London N1 0PS) Website

4th November 2016 - Open Studios, Brighton (168 Kings Road, Arches, Brighton Seafront BN1 1NB)

6th November 2016 - Hug And Pint, Glasgow (171 Great Western Road G4 9AW Glasgow)

7th November 2016 - The Musician, Leicester (Clyde Street, Leicester LE1 2DE) £7.15 Event

ABOUT UNCLE LUCIUS:

For fans of: Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Brothers Osborne

Having shared stages with Merle Haggard, Zac Brown Band, Shooter Jennings, Ryan Bingham and Hayes Carll, Uncle Lucius will already be familiar to many who consider themselves fans of country, Americana and southern rock.

For a decade, the band built its fan base the hard way, through relentless touring and restless searching. When the time came to exit the Nashville ‘machine’ and find a new way to create and release the music they needed to make, they called on their die-hard fans for help. Hundreds of believers pledged tens of thousands of hard-earned dollars. Both humbled and exhilarated, the band hit the studio, eager to justify their fans’ love with the labor of their hearts and souls.

The resulting fourth LP, The Light, is the statement their fans have waited for, with its songs of seeking and questioning, of reaching out to others, of excavating the hidden strength within. After years spent spreading their message across Texas, here at last is the vehicle that can take them to the national - and international - level.

Much about Uncle Lucius sets them apart. Five songwriters combining forces is neither common nor easy, but what each individual loses in pride the band more than gains in power. The song itself matters more than who wrote it, more than the genre to which it belongs. “It’s not about trying to write a certain kind of song,” says Galloway, “it’s about harvesting whatever song comes.”

Despite that organic method, The Light’s 12 songs share themes of travel, movement, and quests without destinations. 

The album places the band in unfamiliar sonic territory, and much credit belongs to producer George Reiff (Shinyribs, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Band of Heathens) for testing their limits. 

Every member influences every other, and that combined filter comes close to defining what Uncle Lucius is. “We’re a five-headed beast,” Galloway insists, “and our songs speak for us. 
Whether we succeed depends on how well they resonate in the world.”

Uncle Lucius' single 'Age of Reason' is available now to stream via Soundcloud.

The 48 minute 12 track set THE LIGHT (Boo Clap) was released in the UK on Jan 22, 2016.

It’s available via Amazon UK (CD) Amazon UK (Vinyl) & UK iTunes  

It was first released in America on June 9, 2015 Amazon.com

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Uncle Lucius announce 'Age of Reason' as next UK radio single

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Uncle Lucius announce 'Age of Reason' as next UK radio single

UNCLE LUCIUS - AGE OF REASON

Country-infused Austin southern rock band Uncle Lucius have announced ‘Age of Reason’ will be their new UK radio single.

“The Light is a record whose songs, both melodies and lyrics, are beautifully and thoughtfully constructed.” - The Daily Country

“...the all-encompassing, world weary zest of The Light proves now more than ever that the band is more than ready for their time in the spotlight.” - For Folk’s Sake

AUSTIN, TX: Following the release of their fourth album THE LIGHT (Boo Clap/Thirty Tigers) and the success of their UK tour dates in January, Austin band Uncle Lucius have confirmed ‘Age of Reason’ to be the latest radio single from the record.

Written by founding bassist Hal Vorpahl, the song conceals a call to arms within the Stax Records-influenced vibe. “It’s a call to let go of limitations,” said singer Kevin Galloway, and among these barriers are religion, tradition, and tribe, for no matter their power in shaping us, “where we come from will never mean as much as where we’ve been.”  

As the track quiets to a dissonant murmur, Galloway offers his sternest indictment: “We claim to serve divinity, yet we exploit those who believe.” The band caterwauls back into place, grinding and pulsating like a well-oiled machine. 

Probing painful truths should come as no surprise to long-time UL fans. From their debut effort, Something They Ain’t, Uncle Lucius has specialized in unvarnished reflections, whether in the thought provoking ‘Million Ways’ or the captivating ‘Keep the Wolves Away’, which propelled their outsider’s angle into the mainstream of Texas radio in 2013.

The 48 minute 12 track set THE LIGHT (Boo Clap) was released in the UK on Jan 22, 2016.

It’s available via Amazon UK (CD) Amazon UK (Vinyl) & UK iTunes  

It was first released in America on June 9, 2015 Amazon.com

About Uncle Lucius:

Members: Jon Grossman, Michael Carpenter, Kevin Galloway, Joshua Dane Greco, Johann Valles

Genre: Americana Roots Rock

Home Town: Austin, Texas

For fans of: Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Brothers Osborne

Having shared stages with Merle Haggard, Zac Brown Band, Shooter Jennings, Ryan Bingham and Hayes Carll, Uncle Lucius will already be familiar to many who consider themselves fans of country, Americana and southern rock.

For a decade, the band built its fan base the hard way, through relentless touring and restless searching. When the time came to exit the Nashville ‘machine’ and find a new way to create and release the music they needed to make, they called on their die-hard fans for help. 

Hundreds of believers pledged tens of thousands of hard-earned dollars. Both humbled and exhilarated, the band hit the studio, eager to justify their fans’ love with the labor of their hearts and souls.

The resulting fourth LP, THE LIGHT, is the statement their fans have waited for, with its songs of seeking and questioning, of reaching out to others, of excavating the hidden strength within. After years spent spreading their message across Texas, here at last is the vehicle that can take them to the national - and international - level.

Much about Uncle Lucius sets them apart. Five songwriters combining forces is neither common nor easy, but what each individual loses in pride the band more than gains in power. The song itself matters more than who wrote it, more than the genre to which it belongs. “It’s not about trying to write a certain kind of song,” says Galloway, “it’s about harvesting whatever song comes.”

Despite that organic method, The Light’s 12 songs share themes of travel, movement, and quests without destinations. The album places the band in unfamiliar sonic territory, and much credit belongs to producer George Reiff (Shinyribs, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Band of Heathens) for testing their limits. Every member influences every other, and that combined filter comes close to defining what Uncle Lucius is. “We’re a five-headed beast,” Galloway insists, “and our songs speak for us. Whether we succeed depends on how well they resonate in the world.”

A band Carpenter calls “Southern rock for the thinking man” doesn’t shy away from outside-the-box influences. Galloway quotes philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti and mythologist Joseph Campbell in the same breath as Willie Nelson, while Greco evokes The Band and bebop drummer Max Roach with equal aplomb. Each member recognizes that authenticity requires a constant seeking, that at no time may an artist arrive at who they truly are. Instead they must look always beyond their present confines, in order to remain unsettled enough to create.

Certainly there’s risk involved when a band decides to go its own way. Freedom carries with it the weight of responsibility after all. That Uncle Lucius seems destined for a broader audience should come as no surprise, for music that comes from the heart and speaks to the soul.

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