Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

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media release: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s critically acclaimed new album, A Few Stars Apart, is out now on Fantasy Records. Produced by Grammy Award winning producer Dave Cobb, the record is a testament to finding a human connection: between close family and friends, as well as one’s own heart. The album was inspired by the stillness Nelson found while riding out the beginning of the pandemic with his family in Texas and was recorded with the full band live on eight-track tape over three weeks at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A. Across the record’s eleven new songs, Nelson reveals what it means to come home again, to be still, and to find community—and yourself.

Critical acclaim for A Few Stars Apart:

“His best album yet…Nelson’s most compact, streamlined, and focused album yet.”

—Rolling Stone

“a collection of lyrically stirring, musically multifarious and ultimately hopeful roots rock storytelling”—The Tennessean

“Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real instill hope for a reconnected future after uncovering what it means to come home again”—American Songwriter

“A Few Stars Apart exudes warmth…an album that wears its heart on its sleeve”

—No Depression

“The band moves fluidly from one sound to another, so you don’t really know what’s coming next. You only know it will be good, and it’s likely to put a smile on your face.”—PopMatters

“A Few Stars Apart is Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real’s best album yet, setting out their stall as one of the standout country-rock bands of the time and excellent storytellers.”

—Entertainment Focus

“a richly organic sound”—Austin American Statesman

“On A Few Stars Apart, the young scion’s vocal at times invokes his dad, but the cosmic-country sound is purely his own”—Nashville Lifestyles

“a lovely reminder of what endures when everything else fails”—The Austin Chronicle

“Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real shine bright on A Few Stars Apart…lyrically luscious and flowing with cadence”—Riff Magazine

“demonstrates that slowing down to reevaluate your life, whether you planned to or not, is time well spent…these good-natured melodies amble by with peaceful ease”—Holler

“a work of art”—Live For Live Music

In celebration of the new music, the band will embark on an extensive headline tour this fall including newly confirmed shows at Chicago’s The Vic Theatre, Boston’s Royale, Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel, Atlanta’s Roxy, Seattle’s The Showbox, Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre (two nights) and Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium among several others.

“I’m from what one might say is the ultimate road family—I’ve been on the road my entire life,” shares Nelson. “I’ve never been anywhere longer than three months, and suddenly here we are, the four of us together. And thank god we were together.

I can’t remember the last time we had that much time together as a family. We had a lot of really important bonding that happened during that time. And I have to say, as terrible as the pandemic has been in so many ways, for my inner peace, I was able to take a lot of good from this time. I was able to pause and reflect.”

He continues, “It took me a really long time to come back to the home in my heart. In a physical sense, that’s Texas and Hawaii. But in a spiritual sense as well—I think I finally decided not to run from who I am and who I am destined to be. First and foremost, that’s a songwriter. That’s what this record means to me. There’s a story being told through the whole record. A story about connection and coming home.”

Based in Texas, Promise of the Real is: Lukas Nelson (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano), Anthony LoGerfo (drums, percussion, tambourine), Corey McCormick (bass guitar, upright bass, Mellotron, vocals), Tato Melgar (percussion) and Logan Metz (piano, Wurlitzer, B3 organ, lap steel, banjo, Mellotron, vocals). Since their debut over a decade ago, the acclaimed band have toured relentlessly playing countless sold-out one-night shows and festivals around the world and occasionally serving as Neil Young’s road band. Nelson also co-produced the music for 2018’s lauded A Star Is Born film in addition to appearing in the film with the band and went on to win a BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and a GRAMMY Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work.