Tom Lucas
Lifeboats
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Piano driven rock/R&B with politically and socially charged lyrics.
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News Flash!! Tom's "undiscovered" 2nd private label LP has been faithfully repliclated by New Fate Productions, LLC (the only company authorized to produce and market his works) on this high-quality CD. Running through Lifeboats is the same passion, voice, piano playing, poetic lyrics, blistering rock songs and delicate haunting introspective ballads found on Red Letter Day. Smoother and with more punch, Lifeboats features some powerful new musical collaborations along with many of the same inspired Red Letter Day artists. Lyric sheets for all songs included.
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Lucas's 5 year plan?
author: Edgar RichardsFinally picked up the long-awaited "Tom Lucas Lifeboats" CD album, song order re-sequenced and zmusic digitally re-mastered - a nice 8 pg. fold-out gives a different feel as well, brighter, more hopeful. It's interesting to listen to what Lucas and his "Collaborators" (especially bassist Norod and guitarist Davis)developed in the 5 years that passed between recording RL:D and recording Lifeboats. You can tell the mark of an authentic major voice once you hear "Lifeboats", becauser, just like Dylan or Bowie or Young or a David Byrne,the songs don't 'sound the same', but the singer/'songwriter is unmistakably identifiable as Lucas. He may have had his R and B influences with Marvin Gaye and Ray Charles, and hard rock with the early Stones and later a band like Talking Heads and their classic "Remain in Light", but he never sounds like a guy looking to find who he can be. He IS. His passion for addressing the suffering of others in song, for satirizing the exploioters, his occasional but always present ballad or 2 which goes deep inside to touch emotional places men have been accused of not even having ! - What a huge surprise to a world of music that is not devoid of many great original artists. In fact, for a new one to emerge of Lucas's caliber is quite an achievement in itself in a crowded field of artists worthy of listening to who also have the luxury of big label, big marketing budgets. Bless the man for breaking through against all odds - even if it took a sharp record collector in England to "discover" him and get that music OUT. Egar R. in Boulder, CO
those red letters
author: D.C. Lucas"Man, what is the thing about red letters anyway?" I asked my Aunt, who was close to his mother until she passed away. "Why David," she laughed at me, "didn't they teach you to read in high school?" Stretching the truth a little I said, "Most certainly Aunt Sara." "Well then, w where have you ever read words written in red with the rest of the book in black letters?" She continued. "All over my high school English papers", I said. "Good Lord David,next time try home schooling, where they don't use red pens. Then you may discover the red letters." I still didn't get it but my Aunt is plain and sparse like that, and I never liked the way she made me feel more stupid than when I got there. "Oh !" I blurted out. "I know - the pirate CD from England has a big black stamp in the upper right of their rip-off, but Tom's new one still uses just the red letters." Aunt Sara sighed and asked how long I'd be staying. D.C. - on the road visiting relatives and friends of Tom Lucas.
Excellent adult contemporary CD
author: Xavier P. and RadioIndy.comTom Lucas’s “Lifeboats” will get fans of adult contemporary/rock up and moving to the groove! The musicianship on the CD, especially the piano work, is impressive. Opening with the energetic, piano-driven “History Makes It,” listeners are quickly acquainted with Tom’s unique and passionate timbre, and some electrifying electric solos! Aside from the compelling song structures and piano arrangements, “Lifeboats” houses songs with deep political and social commentary. “Do It Now” takes a more serious and solemn turn, garnering heavy emotional appeal from the provoking piano arrangement. Careful production wraps up this audio delight! Fans of Neil Young and the likes, be sure to pick up your copy of “Lifeboats” today!
Why? Why? Why?
author: D. CoreyI don't get it. How does an industry with a moral history perhaps superior to boxing, "manage" - and I mean manage - to "accidentally "ignore" a singer/songwriter whom "Lifeboats" proves to any doubters that he should have been courted and signed by any label interested in selling hot, original, innovative, AND progressively independent ROCK by Tom Lucas for two decades plus? Could it have something to go with the fact that a significant perventage of his songs we've heard so far are defiant,independent, rallying cries for the disenfranchised, the exploited, the victimized,and the fodder for others to amass private wealth? Why did it take an act of piracy for his music to finally begin to "slip around" the virtual brick walls of power and cynicism that the gatekeepers of commercial music seemed to have isolated him in? Listen to the lyrics that conclude "Sing for Food Stamps", as the rhythmic pattern changes to a martial-like series of downbeats corresponding to the vocal crescendo: " to buy the stamps, to buy the food, to eat to fill, voices singing to build, such monument, to such government, so busy...American dance,sing boys, for your food stamps, American dance, sing girls for.......your...food! - David, a new fan who wants more. human beings marred by global commercialism and consumerism
Must be heard to grasp
author: Rick RevoirI followed Tom Lucas and his various bands that always made a local and regional living playing original material. We, his fans, were sure he would be signed 20 years ago by a big label, but he turned down a proposal from Columbia and stayed true to his musicians. His and their music (check out David Norod-bass, Geoff Davis-guitar)is timeless, authoritative and fiercely independent. Lifeboats has the same drive and originality with the lyrics of a major poet as his 1st, pirated album, but it shows the development he and the band achieved in the years following Red Letter Day. Although when asked if he was worried about "getting your music ripped off" he would answer, "at least it means someone truly sees value in it, a high compliment to me, even if a rip-off". So the piracy by UK's Radioactive in 2004 brought him to global attention, and now Lifeboats should prove just how "undiscovered" he was. As for those around New York who know his work, we're waiting for the new recordings he and his "Collaborators" have started working on, supposed to be a CD released by New Fate and CD Baby in 2008. from: Rick Revoir, in Tully, NY.
Lifeboats
author: Blake LucasTom Lucas is my Dad. I take piano lessons but my Dad teaches me how to let songs write themselves. My sister always asks us to play "Red Letter Day" on trips, but my favorite is spooky "Winter's Raft" from Lifeboats.