Dreaming in America
Dreaming in America
2005. Directed by Aaron Goldman.
I first saw Lucero around the time this film came out. My best friend in the world, Brandon, had spent the year 2004 in court-appointed rehab. He gave me a copy of Nobody's Darling, the album that is the result of the filming of this movie, when he first came out of rehab. But more than that, he gave me a story. He'd spent the first six months of his rehab in, um, prison, and after that he was given permission to get a job. It was while performing that job as the night clerk at a Best Western that he met Lucero. They gave him a copy of Nobody's Darling when he recognized them at 2 in the morning at a shitty Lubbock motel. He gave me that album sometime soon after that, and I bought the earlier but better album That Much Further West then and the rest is history. This is a great documentary, catching a real, talented band just as they are making that transition from always on the road to, um, not. Grade: A
2005. Directed by Aaron Goldman.
I first saw Lucero around the time this film came out. My best friend in the world, Brandon, had spent the year 2004 in court-appointed rehab. He gave me a copy of Nobody's Darling, the album that is the result of the filming of this movie, when he first came out of rehab. But more than that, he gave me a story. He'd spent the first six months of his rehab in, um, prison, and after that he was given permission to get a job. It was while performing that job as the night clerk at a Best Western that he met Lucero. They gave him a copy of Nobody's Darling when he recognized them at 2 in the morning at a shitty Lubbock motel. He gave me that album sometime soon after that, and I bought the earlier but better album That Much Further West then and the rest is history. This is a great documentary, catching a real, talented band just as they are making that transition from always on the road to, um, not. Grade: A