"one day / I'll be gray haired / and I'll fall behind / like all blood before / I'll wait at the door / with wise and weary eyes / for a storybook sunrise..."
In repose and somewhere between a morning blessing and a mournful eulogy, the beautiful "Gray Hairs" by Milton New York born and raised singer-songwriter Lucas Neil feels like an ever changing diorama, a magic box that gracefully ages. Everyone's life is full of it's pure ups and downs, joy and depths of pain and you somehow feel this as you listen to this track. All this besides the fact that Neil crafts the weight of living one's life while at a tender young age. Maybe in terms of his chosen art form he is much older after all having been brought up in musical theater and the performing arts.
"Gray Hairs" maybe be constructed of classical folk sticks but the track still surprises, is incredibly poignant. There may be a hundred reasons why but maybe the most cohesive glue (apart from the emotional lyrics) is Neil's incredible telling voice itself. His vocal lilt is not only magnetic in it's beauty but embracing in it's sinewy emotionalism. You feel the full panorama of feelings in each word, each sustain because Neil feels each emotion as he sings. No one is that great an actor.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Born and raised in Milton, New York with an upbringing in musical theater and the performing arts, Lucas Neil was endowed with the beauty and responsibility of what it means to be in front of an audience at a very young age.
Neil’s musical style, an acoustic blend of Americana and indie-folk, has a palpable sense of spiritual symbolism, storytelling, atmosphere, and gratitude for life.
Neil combines tastes of the great singer/songwriters of years past like James Taylor and Bob Dylan with the new-age musicality of acts like Gregory Alan Isakov and Blind Pilot.
Most important to the creation and experience of his music, Neil says, is an intimate relationship with our natural world, meaning the elements and creatures in our environment as well as our own psyche, bodies, and souls.
Neil has appeared on bills with Ryan Montbleau, Josh Rouse, Kat Wright, the Wolff Sisters and has been featured in such events as the Rhode Island Folk Fest, Hartbeat Music Festival, Blackbear Music Festival, Mystic Folkways, River Glow Arts Festival, and Block Island, Rhode Island’s Conserfest, an arts festival that raises proceeds for the National Nature Conservancy.
He invites you to join him in person at one of his shows, which often range from laid back bar gigs based on song requests and laughter, to intimate listening room performances best for crying, healing, and loving.
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https://www.instagram.com/iamlucasneil/
https://lucasneilmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lucasneilmusicfacebook/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCHoEK1utyKH5puImL_GzRw
Born and raised in Milton, New York with an upbringing in musical theater and the performing arts, Lucas Neil was endowed with the beauty and responsibility of what it means to be in front of an audience at a very young age.
Neil’s musical style, an acoustic blend of Americana and indie-folk, has a palpable sense of spiritual symbolism, storytelling, atmosphere, and gratitude for life.
Neil combines tastes of the great singer/songwriters of years past like James Taylor and Bob Dylan with the new-age musicality of acts like Gregory Alan Isakov and Blind Pilot.
Most important to the creation and experience of his music, Neil says, is an intimate relationship with our natural world, meaning the elements and creatures in our environment as well as our own psyche, bodies, and souls.
Neil has appeared on bills with Ryan Montbleau, Josh Rouse, Kat Wright, the Wolff Sisters and has been featured in such events as the Rhode Island Folk Fest, Hartbeat Music Festival, Blackbear Music Festival, Mystic Folkways, River Glow Arts Festival, and Block Island, Rhode Island’s Conserfest, an arts festival that raises proceeds for the National Nature Conservancy.
He invites you to join him in person at one of his shows, which often range from laid back bar gigs based on song requests and laughter, to intimate listening room performances best for crying, healing, and loving.
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