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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real    

American Country Rock Band

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, a California-based American country rock group, was formed in 2008. The band includes Lukas Nelson, son of Willie Nelson, as lead vocalist and guitarist, Anthony LoGerfo on drums and percussion, Corey McCormick on bass guitar and vocals, Logan Metz on keyboards, lap steel, guitar, harmonica and vocals, and Tato Melgar on percussion. Since its inception, the band has released six studio albums and four EPs, with their first album, "Promise of the Real," debuting in December 2010. The band also played over 200 shows across the United States in 2011, frequently serving as the opening act for Willie Nelson in 2012.

In addition to their own work, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real served as Canadian musician Neil Young's backing band from 2015 to 2019. They recorded two studio albums with Young, "The Monsanto Years" and "The Visitor," a soundtrack album, "Paradox," and two live albums, "Earth" and "Noise & Flowers." The band's work extends beyond music production; Lukas Nelson won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work on A Star Is Born.

The band’s album "Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real" topped the Americana Radio Chart in 2017, and they have continued to release successful albums including "Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)" in 2019, "Naked Garden" in 2020, and "A Few Stars Apart" in 2021. Their recent album, "Sticks and Stones" released in 2023. The band’s work has been recognised on various charts, including the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, Heatseekers Albums, Independent Albums, and Americana/Folk Albums charts. They have also achieved recognition and chart success internationally, in countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

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LUKAS NELSON AND PROMISE OF THE REAL TAKE COWBOY HIPPY SURF ROCK TO NEXT LEVEL ON ‘SOMETHING REAL’ LP (LUKAS NELSON INTERVIEW)
“Music is like color,” explained Lukas Nelson recently. “When I listen to the musicians who affected me when I was growing you, I take from the primary colors to find my foundation. Then I apply secondary colors and the music becomes more and more complex.” For Nelson, music is a whole palette of colors, each readily available to be dipped into, blended, experimented with and crazily contoured into vibrant new works of art. He may have been born into a country music household but that house was never a one trick pony.

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