ANTOnline
2005
Dreaming In America (Live)
About This Album
Flying by the seat of their pants, Southern indie rockers Lucero have eked out a career in music despite never receiving a royalty check from their first record company and watching their second label close its doors right as the band was getting hot. Add a charismatic, heartfelt ruffian as lead singer, a never-ending tour schedule, and a Replacements-like show that's brilliance on the brink of drunken disaster, and you've got one heck of a story. Inspired by films like D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back, filmmaker Aaron Goldman captures life on the road with Lucero on Dreaming in America, a well-put-together documentary that pulls for the band without becoming an electronic press kit. The first half of the film focuses on the band stuck in cult limbo while the second half deals with an odd opportunity that allows Lucero to become part of the Warner Bros. family without selling their souls or master tapes. The deal finds Lucero forming their own label, Liberty & Lament, and tying it to the Warner-related East West company in a relationship where either party can walk away "intact." For the non-faithful, the first half of the film dwells a bit too much on how these guys should make it, how their fans are zealous, and how much they're just like the Replacements with a Jim Dickinson-produced album and lyrics about liquor stores in the moonlight.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4 and 6)

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