New England Music Scrapbook
Lucky 57

Lucky 57 is an excellent country group made up of Boston rock veterans. Sanded-smooth vocals are cast against a background of more heavily-textured instrumentation. The tunes and overall performances on "Lovely Melancholy" are country-pop, though much in the lyrics and accompaniment would likely resonate with a rock-club audience. The material, mostly written by Tinker Lee Taylor, is consistently strong. Taylor's best may be "Chance Meeting" (with the verse "You feel like for all these years/you've been sleeping./Now you're wakin' up/with such a start/you are shaking." Leader Kip McCloud contributed two great originals: "Done," in particular, sounds like a possible hit. And the song's one-word title captures the essence of this terrific song's country-heartache theme. -- Alan Lewis, posted 3/30/2002