Time: 41:35
File: Flac from vinyl
Released: 1974
Styles: Chicago blues, piano blues
Art: Front
1. Wake Me Up In The Morning (3:20)
2. Poor Boy Blues (4:32)
3. Blues Before Sunrise (2:44)
4. Cabbage Head (4:32)
5. Coal Black Mare (6:07)
6. She Got Me Walkin' (3:01)
7. Bring It On Home (3:52)
8. I Had A Dream (4:00)
9. Greyhound Bus Blues (4:18)
10. Old Ship Of Zion (5:09)
Not till 1974 did he cut an album as “Lazy Bill Lucas.” That self-titled LP came out via the Vermont-based Philo label and mostly featured Lucas’s raw piano stylings (rather than guitar) and delightfully raspy, seasoned voice. In 1979, Lucas began hosting his own regular radio program, The Lazy Bill Lucas Show, on KFAI in Minneapolis, but he died of natural causes on December 11, 1982.
Lucas’s legacy lives on, though. He’s been included on so many blues compilations and reissues since the 60s (the most recent in 2019) that I’d need another column to detail or even mention them all. Lazy Bill Lucas may not be a household name, but his place is firmly cemented in blues history—as it should be.
Lazy Bill Lucas FLAC