from his acclaimed album "The Ordeal of Civility"
garylucas.com/www/civil

Produced by Jerry Harrison

Gary Lucas--guitars, lead vocal
Jerry Harrison--keyboards
Ernie Brooks--bass
Billy Ficca--drums
Alva Rogers--vocals
Jenni Muldaur--vocals
Jason Candler--alto sax
Joe Hendel--trombone

words and music by Gary Lucas

A track from our new album commemorating the pogrom in Jedwabne Poland July 10th 1941 in which the entire Jewish community (including my family on my mother's side) was rounded up and herded into a barn which was then torched
drawing by Cheyenne Schiavone 
http://garylucas.com/www/grfx/LETTER_FROM_JEDWABNE.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL_uyEcaM8

"Jedwabne"--Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters

original song by Gary Lucas & Essra Mohawk

Gary Lucas--acoustic guitar
Essra Mohawk--vocal, percusssion

Gary and Essra will be performing together at the Zappanale in Bad Doberan Germany and the Rochefort-En-Accords Festival in France August 2011

recorded in NYC spring 2005

The Devil's Gotta Move Along--Gary Lucas and Essra Mohawk

arrangement of a Rev. Gary Davis composition by Gary Lucas

GL--1966 Guild acoustic 12-string 

recorded chez Lucas West Village NYC 11/12/23

photo: Rev. Gary Davis & Megan Ochs. Photography by Alice Ochs.

"O Glory"--Gary Lucas plays Rev. Gary Davis

composed and performed by Gary Lucas 
recorded to iPhone on his 1941 Gibson J-45 acoustic 
6/12/24 NYC
watercolor and pen and ink drawing by David Scher

"That taut rope sound" was how my friend Paul Haines, the late Canadian poet and jazz lyricist ( Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hill" and Kip Hanrahan's "Darn It") once described my playing

"That Taut Rope Sound"--Gary Lucas

composed by Richard Wagner for his opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" 1843
arranged for solo electric guitar by Gary Lucas
recorded by Marc Urselli at Eastside Sound NYC

absolutely no overdubs

collage by 3XA

Fantasia on "The Flying Dutchman" Overture--Gary Lucas

This medley includes the Nino Rota-composed "Drink More Milk" theme from the Fellini-directed segment of 1962 Italian romantic comedy anthology "Boccaccio '70", "La Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio"--a tale of a giant Amazonian woman (Anita Ekberg) advertising milk on a billboard in Rome come to life to bedevil a blue-nosed doctor who lives near the billboard. "Boccaccio '70" also included segments directed by Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Mario Monicelli. "The Temptation of Dr. Antonio", as it was titled in the US, starred the aforementioned Ekberg, fresh from her triumphal swim in the Trevi Fountain in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita". Rota's music in Fellini's segment also included some of the themes from his score for "La Dolce Vita".
Arranged and performed by Gary Lucas on his 1941 Gibson J-45 
Recorded to iPhone 8/4/24 NYC
photo: Anita Ekberg lets it all hang out in "Boccaccio '70"

Drink More Milk!

www.garylucas.com

"Boccaccio ‘70 / La Dolce Vita" (Nino Rota)--Gary Lucas

track recorded in Budapest at Tom-Tom Studios, first released in the UK March 2016 and in the US April 2016

Gary Lucas--guitars and fx
Enikő Szabó--voice
 Dezső Toni--sax


http://garylucas.com/www/pearly/pearly.shtml
www.pearlyclouds.com

produced by Pearly Clouds

"DREAM HAS FALLEN"-- PEARLY CLOUDS (Gary Lucas, Enikő Szabó, and Dezső Toni )

Music by Jackie Gleason (Theme from "The Jackie Gleason Show")

arranged and performed by Gary Lucas
on his 1943 Gibson J-45

recorded on my iPhone chez Lucas
8/14/16

"Jackie Gleason was hip, man. Have you heard 'Music for Dining'??"
   --Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

"Melancholy Serenade"--Gary Lucas solo acoustic

Theme from "La Strada" (The Road) 
(d. Federico Fellini, 1954) composed by Nino Rota
arr. and performed by Gary Lucas 
on his 1942 Gibson J-45
recorded on his iPhone 5/27/18

photo of Giulietta Masina taken from the film

Theme from Fellini's "La Strada"--Gary Lucas solo acoustic

Jeff Buckley--voice  Gary Lucas--guitar photo   copyright Chris Buck
Recorded live Feb. 4th 1997 at the Knitting Factory 10th Anniversary Celebration in the MainSpace on Leonard Street NYC--a private party  hosted by founder Michael Dorf which gathered many Downtown performers who had helped establish the club's reputation, various journalists and celebrity friends of the club, and a large contingent of Sony Music employees who came to hear their signed artist Jeff Buckley preview songs from his projected second album which Jeff had been working on for 3 years. In the audience was Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine, Lenny Kaye, WFMU's Nick Hill, and Gary Lucas, co-writer of a dozen songs with Jeff including "Grace" and "Mojo Pin", and Jeff's partner & collaborator in 1991-92 in a version of Gary's longtime band Gods and Monsters.  Here, in a move that surprised Lucas, who had been sidelined by Buckley since Buckley quit Gods and Monsters in March '92, Jeff invites Gary onstage to perform their anthem "Grace", hands him his Telecaster, and away they soar. The duo's performance brings the house down, and an elated Lucas later visits Jeff in his dressing room to thank him for inviting him onstage to play. Gary leaves the club on an upbeat note, feeling that his relationship with Jeff had turned a corner, that their creative bond was still strong, and that he still loved his old friend. A month later Jeff's Sony A&R guy informs Gary that he may be getting a call to go down to Memphis to work with Jeff on new songs, as things had not been going  well for Jeff with the second album sessions, that Jeff had dismissed his band and his producer Tom Verlaine and was struggling to write new songs by himself. Gary is intrigued by the possibility of writing new anthems with Jeff (at Jeff's invitation earlier that year, Gary had sent Jeff 3 new solo guitar instrumentals as possible new song templates, the way they had always worked on all their songs together). But wary of putting too much faith in this projected scenario, it being the fickle music biz, Gary continues to work on his own projects as usual, in the back of his mind wondering if he really will get a call to go to Memphis and work with Jeff. On Friday May 30th--Memorial Day--Gary received a call, but not the call he was hoping for. It was from a friend at MTV News informing him that Jeff was missing, and was presumed to have tragically drowned in the Mississippi River. This historic recording thus documents the last time Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas ever performed together.

The Last "Grace"--Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas at the Knitting Factory 2/4/97

a union of like-minded souls and musical sensibilities when DUO PASSIONATO, 
two Ecuadorian virtuosos of classical piano and violin, meet GARY LUCAS
at the junction of art and commerce performing a well known piece by Ecuadorian composer Gerardo Guevara. 
Piano - Sandra Durán
Violín - Martha Artola
Electric guitar - Gary Lucas
recorded and mixed by David Sisko NYC  Jan. 2013

"Boccaccio ‘70 / La Dolce Vita" (Nino Rota)--Gary Lucas

gary@garylucas.com

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