TED LUCAS
It’s a gas That someday All your cares will pass. You’ll be laughing in the grass Isn’t a lovely day
The words are gentle and simple and bring a contrast when compared with words of hate and revolution, of sorrow and denial. Simple yet expressed in such a way that brightness of the sun has caressed each word.
This is Ted Lucas, gentle, simple, and also a damn good guitarist. Lucas has been around Detroit since the early 50’s, performing alone and with groups, the Spikedrivers and the Misty Wizards. Ted has studied classical, blues and folk guitar and also plays harp, auto-harp, mandalin harp and sitar with unbelievable dexterity.
Although he’s been around for quite a number of years and is now performing solo, Ted Lucas today has brought into the music scene firstly, loquacious ability and secondly and probably most important a new sound. This “something new” is just the “Lucas style” as he calls it; the final coagulation of himself and his music.