UNCLE LUCIUS : AND YOU ARE ME

1. Set Ourselves Free
2. Pocket Full Of Misery
3. Rosalia
4. Willing Wasted Time
5. Keep The Wolves Away
6. Somewhere Else
7. All We've Got Is Now
8. New Drug
9. Just Keep Walking
10. There Is No End
11. I Am You

Label : Entertainment One

Release Date : August 28, 2012

Length : 51:30

Review (Lone Star Music) : The mental mix tapes in the minds of each member of Uncle Lucius would make for some mighty fine road trippin’ music across Texas — and there’d be enough musical diversity to keep a Greyhound full of unlike-minded vagabonds content. On And You Are Me, the Austin band’s third release, Uncle Lucius dips into a rich stash of musical styles and tastes to create a sound all their own, yet vaguely familiar. You’ll detect whiffs of late-period Beatles on the kaleidoscopic “Willing Wasted Time,” get a hint of the Brothers Allman riffing into “Somewhere Else,” and hear Rodney Crowell’s graceful influence on the exquisite ballad of hard times in the shadows of H-town’s oil refineries. But it’s on “Pocketful of Misery” where the band brings it all together best, with Keith Richards-like licks and economic rock rollin’ from lead guitarist Michael Carpenter, a window-rattlin’ horn section, and powerful vocals by Kevin Galloway spinning a T-Bone Walker worthy tale of bluesy, hard-luck woe. While there a few jejune lyrical observations, with “All We’ve Got Is Now” and its pedestrian paean to the present (“There’ no past, there’s no future, all we’ve got is now”) and a lovestruck philosophy major’s insight on “I Am You” (“I am you, you are me, I love me, I love you”), it’s the gratifying grooves that really move the needle here. And You Are Me is both timeless and novel music you’ll want to go back to time and time again.

Review (The Austin Chronicle) : Stewing together the choicest Southwestern roots – country, rock, folk, new blues, and R&B – Uncle Lucius' third LP takes familiar sounds to original places. Launching bluesy rumble "Set Ourselves Free" and Skynyrd-ish lead single "Pocket Full of Misery," the Austin fivepiece goes for the gusto on the front end of And You Are Me, with its propulsive horns and choruses, yet it's the staples – Kevin Galloway's soulful vocals and Mike Carpenter's hammer/slide melody riffs – that earn the band its keep. These constants carry the band through 11 distinct and variant songs, the best of which, "Keep the Wolves Away," pits Carpenter's gut-wrenching voice with gentle accordion and a singular bass drum kick for a soul-stirring folk ballad. While the lion's share of arrangements are tight and intuitive, the band delves into an unforeseen four-part vocal round on "Somewhere Else" and shows off its instrumental prowess with extended jams on "All We've Got Is Now," which hangs a funk guitar and whirling organ leads on a cowbell pulse. "There Is No End" betrays trace Black Sabbath influences. The ground And You Are Me walks remains long trod, but Uncle Lucius' stride covers a stylistic odyssey.