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Also known as | POTR |
Origin | Venice, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Genres | Rock, country rock, roots rock |
Years active | 2008–present |
Labels | Fantasy |
Members | Lukas Nelson Anthony LoGerfo Tato Melgar Corey McCormick Logan Metz |
Past members | Merlyn Kelly |
Website | lukasnelson |
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, sometimes referred to as POTR, is an American country rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2008. The band consists of Lukas Nelson (lead vocals,songwriter, acoustic and electric guitars), Anthony LoGerfo (drums), Corey McCormick (bass guitar, vocals), Logan Metz (keyboards, lap steel, banjo, harmonica, vocals), and Tato Melgar (percussion). The band has released eight studio albums and two live albums as well as numerous singles, and extended plays (EP).
Headlining hundreds of their own shows, they have also toured with John Fogerty, BB King, and Willie Nelson (Lukas Nelson's father), and opened for The Rolling Stones and The Who in 2018. From 2015 to 2019, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real were the backing band for Canadian musician Neil Young.
In 2007, Lukas Nelson (Willie Nelson's son) moved from Paia, Hawaii to Los Angeles in 2007 to attend Loyola Marymount University. At a Neil Young rock concert in 2008, he met musician Anthony LoGerfo, who shared Nelson's interest in rock music. They began playing together and launched Promise of the Real with Tato Melgar (percussionist), and Merlyn Kelly (bassist) [1] The band name was inspired by a lyric from a Neil Young song. The specific lyric "Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real," is found in the song Walk On. [2]
In the fall of 2008, the band released the EP, Live Beginnings, recorded at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California. Sales from the EP supported costs of their early touring. [3] The band began touring, playing upwards of 300 shows throughout the next two years. By January 2009, they were on the road with Willie Nelson, a trip that included five-nights of shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Later that year, they shared the stage with B.B. King and appeared at festivals including the Waterfront Blues Festival and the Telluride Brews and Blues Festival. [4]
That year, they released the studio EP Brando's Paradise Sessions. The five track release features bassist John Avila in place of their original bassist, Merlyn Kelly, who was no longer with the band. The album cover is a painting by Nelson's younger brother, Micah Nelson, an artist, composer and musician, and his artwork appears on several of their other albums.
In March 2010, they released their first studio album, Promise of the Real, recorded at the Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas. Corey McCormick, their new bassist, appears on the album having joined the band in 2009, replacing Kelly. McCormick had previously been a bassist with Chris Cornell. [5] The album includes three cover tracks: Peaceful Solution (Willie Nelson), Pali Gap/Hey Baby (Jimi Hendrix) and L.A.(Neil Young), all songs by the artists that have heavily influenced the members of the band. Album engineer Steve Chadie's 6-year-old daughter provided the cover art and the release includes a booklet of Micah Nelson's paintings created on stage during their concerts.
Over the next few years, they consistently performed over 200 shows per year from coast to coast, building a solid and expanding fan base.
In 2012, the band released two albums, Wasted and Live Endings, both on the Tidal Tone label. By the time they were in the studio to record Wasted, they made significant changes in their production process. Neil Young has greatly influenced them, in both their music style and production values, and at his suggestion, they decided to record live in the studio in analog to enhance the sound quality. Nelson believes doing so “added a lot of magnetism and energy. . . this record sounds more like what you get when you see us perform.” [6] Co-producer Jim “Moose” Brown ( the Grammy Award-winning session musician/songwriter/producer) added greater complexity to the music on this album by bringing in additional instrumentation including steel guitar, harmonica, Dobro guitar, Wurtlitzer piano, and Hammond B3 organ [7]
Nelson and POTR never failed to seize valuable opportunities to expand their national exposure. In April 2012, they appeared on Bob Weir's studio TRI Studios broadcast on Yahoo Music. In the fall of that year, they backed John Fogerty on his coast-to-coast tour of Canada. [8] The band continued to open shows for Willie Nelson, and performed a cover of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe" live on Willie's Roadhouse channel on Sirius XM on May 15, 2012. [9] Since 2009, they have consistently performed at the annual Farm Aid fundraising concerts. By 2013, the band had appeared on a number of major late night talk shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and two performances on The Late Show with David Letterman. [10]
Willie Nelson's album Heroes released on May 15, 2012, featured Lukas on 10 of the 14 tracks. Lukas and his father performed "Texas Flood" on Lat e Night with Jimmy Fallon on May 14, 2012.
In January 2015, Neil Young and the band recorded the concept album The Monsanto Years . The album includes "A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop" which targets Starbucks and its use of genetically modified food. The album recording and live rehearsals were filmed by Don Hannah in April 2015 for a film also entitled The Monsanto Years. [11]
On June 17, 2016, the live album Earth was released. It was recorded during the Rebel Content Tour in 2015 and featured live performances augmented by studio overdubs and nature and animal sounds.
On November 3, 2017, Young announced a new album with Promise of the Real. The album, entitled The Visitor , was released December 1 and included a song called "Already Great". [12]
The album Paradox (2018) is the soundtrack to Daryl Hannah's film Paradox released on March 23, 2018. [13]
Noise & Flowers is a live album of selected songs from Young's tour of Europe in 2019, which was released on August 5, 2022. [14] The tour commenced just two weeks after the passing of Young's long time manager and friend Elliot Roberts and served as a memorial to their 50 plus years of collaboration. [15] [16]
The band signed with Fantasy Records and released the self-titled album Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real on August 25, 2017. [17] The album hit No. 1 on the Americana Radio Chart the week of November 10, 2017 [18] Lady Gaga, with whom Nelson was collaborating on A Star Is Born, provided backing vocals on two tracks. The album earned the band its first Americana Music Awards nomination for Duo/Group of the Year. [19]
On October 20, 2017, Legacy Recordings released "Willie Nelson and the Boys (Willie's Stash, Vol. 2)", a family collaboration showcasing Willie, Lukas, and Micah performing a selection of American country music classics, including seven penned by Hank Williams, Sr. [20]
A Star Is Born, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga, was released in October 2018. [21] Nelson co-produced the music for the film, writing songs with Gaga, after being hired as an authenticity consultant to Cooper. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real appear in the film as Cooper's band. Nelson won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work. [22]
Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) marked the band's fifth studio album release and second studio album release for Fantasy Records. The album was released on June 14, 2019, [23] peaking at No. 19 on Billboard's US Top Country Albums chart [24] and 31 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart. [25]
On March 27, 2020, the band released Naked Garden, a 15-track collection that is a companion piece to 2019's Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) . [26] [27] Naked Garden includes previously unreleased versions and alternate takes of songs that were recorded during the Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) sessions at Shangri-La and Village Studios. [27]
On April 28, 2021, the band announced their next studio album release on Fantasy Records, A Few Stars Apart, accompanied by the first single released from the album, "Perennial Bloom (Back To You)". Available June 11, 2021, the album was recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville and Produced by Dave Cobb. [28]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | ||||
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US [29] | US Country [30] | US Heat. [31] | US Taste [32] | US Folk [33] | |||
Promise of the Real |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
Wasted |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
Something Real |
| — | — | 19 | — | 16 | |
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| — | 2 | 35 | 19 | 10 |
|
Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) |
| 151 | 19 | — | 9 | 4 |
|
Naked Garden |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
A Few Stars Apart |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
Sticks and Stones |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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US [37] | AUS [38] | GER [39] | ITA [40] | NED [41] | NOR [42] | SWE [43] | UK [44] | ||
The Monsanto Years (with Neil Young) |
| 21 | 23 | 13 | 27 | 14 | 38 | 47 | 24 |
The Visitor (with Neil Young) |
| 167 | 85 | 25 | — | 39 | 36 | 32 | 65 |
Album | Release date |
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Brando's Paradise Sessions EP | September 30, 2010 |
Album | Release date |
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Live Beginnings | October 2008 |
Live Endings | December 2012 |
Earth (with Neil Young) | June 2016 |
Noise & Flowers (with Neil Young) | August 2022 |
Album | Release date |
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Dumb and Dumber To | November 7, 2014 |
The Ranch | April 1, 2016 |
My Little Pony: The Movie | September 22, 2017 |
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