Friday May 13, 2022 “Perennial Bloom (Back to You)” Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real
Lukas Nelson is one of the eight children of country singer/songwriter and legendary artist Willie Nelson and just to clarify none are related to our earlier Nelsons, Matthew, Gunnar or Rick. Lukas began playing guitar at a young age in an attempt to better connect with his hard-touring father and by the age of 13, he had joined his father's band, touring as his rhythm guitarist.
Since 2015, Promise of the Real have been Neil Young's regular backing band. The band has recorded two studio albums with Young, The Monsanto Years (2015) and The Visitor (2017), a soundtrack album, Paradox (2018) for the Darryl Hanna directed movie of the same name, and a live album, Earth (2016).
After being hired as an authenticity consultant to Bradley Cooper, Lukas Nelson co-produced the music for the Cooper directed film A Star Is Born, writing songs with Lady Gaga. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real appear in the film as Jackson Maine’s (Bradley Cooper) band.
Since we all tend to pigeonhole artists in musical genres we can be thankful for Lukas’ description of his musical style as “cowboy hippie surf rock", which I think pretty much narrows it down.
Stay safe and well…and in case you're not familiar with Lukas Nelson, he's the beardless guy in the flannel shirt playing guitar in the video.