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About Me

The Lucky Strikes are a blues/Americana four piece delivering tales of outlaws, desperadoes and chain gangs in 1930s Mississippi. Their second record, the Chronicles of Solomon Quick tell the fictional story of the man responsible for the death of singer and guitarist Robert Johnson. The sprawling 12 songs blur reality and fiction, sanity and madness and morality vs. infamy.

While Johnson’s murder is the essential backdrop for the album, the seedy lives of a wide range of fictional characters are the focus. Fusing widescreen Americana, garage blues and bar room rock and roll, the record is currently being developed as a novel and screenplay. The intended result is to have more in common with a Nelson Algren novel or a series of the Wire than the generic indie currently being churned out by an endless list of disappointing English bands.

The album is due to be released on April 18

To buy the Lucky Strikes' self-titled debut album go to www.zingg.co.uk

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Member Since: 17/06/2007
Band Website: www.theluckystrikes.com
Band Members: Mat Boulter (guitar and vocals) Dave Giles (guitar) Warren Laker (bass) Will Bray (drums) Wild Jim Wilson (fiddle, banjo)For all booking and management contact: [email protected]
Influences: the Black Keys, the White Stripes, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Two Gallants, Tom Waits.
Sounds Like: Tobacco, typewriters and the death of Robert Johnson
Record Label: Stove Pony
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Buy it now! The Chronicles of Solomon Quick

The Chronicles of Solomon Quick is out 22nd June on general release. Thanks to everyone at Stovepony and Cargo the new record is available from all major record stores including........Amazonhttp://ww...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:06:00 GMT

Americana UK review

The Lucky Strikes The Chronicles Of Solomon Quick (Stovepony, 2009)Well meet again at the CrossroadsThe death of Robert Johnson is mired in mystery. A number of myths exist, but most seem to point ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:41:00 GMT

Rock and Reel review

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Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Launch Party

To celebrate the release of The Lucky Strikes debut album they're hosting a launch party. 14th December at The Marquee Club (Upper Saint Martins Lane, London) tickets are now available at www.seeticke...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:41:00 GMT

Debut Album

The Lucky Strikes have been charging all over this year playing hard. For their reward the debut, self titled ablum is now available!The Lucky Strikes is on general sale from 12.11.2007 at www.zingg.c...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:38:00 GMT