Rod Lacy-vocals, guitars, bass, mandolin, keyboards, drums, trumpet, effects/programming
Influences
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Tori Amos, John Steinbeck, Willie Nelson, Badfinger, Elliott Smith, Led Zeppelin, Wilco, Billy Joel, Todd Rundgren, Edward Abbey, Kanye West, Otis Redding, The Band, Nirvana, Counting Crows, Fast Heart Mart, Warren Zevon, Hank Williams (1,2,3), Bill Hicks, Tool, Waylon Jennings, Fats Domino, George Strait, Frank Zappa, Ernest Tubb, Phil Collins, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Jack Kerouac, CSN, Sailor Jerry, Pall Mall, Copenhagen, Coors Light, Love, Sex, Hate and fear of myself.
Sounds Like
A light breeze...86 degrees....mostly sunny.....chillaxing at the lake with a cooler full of Coors, a giant bag of hot pork rinds, a fresh can of copenhagen, three fish in the basket and a fat fucking spliff.
Rod Lacy is a multiinstrumental singer/songwriter originally from Gamerco, NM. He currently lives in Albuqueruqe, NM and has written the songs performed and recorded by the Albuquerque bands Weldon and The Old Main. He is currently working on a follow-up album (to be called "Plum Loco") to 2006's critically acclaimed "Blacklung" AVAILABLE AT CDBABY:
ROD LACY FACTOIDS:
He has been married for 10 years, has a bunch of kids, changes a shitty diaper in under one minute, drinks a shit-ton of beer, likes running, worships Edward Abbey and Jack Kerouac, loves Pall Mall cigarettes, has one and a half tattoos, has worn fishnet stockings on one occasion, can throw rocks very far and with incredible accuracy, drinks KoolAid with reckless abandon, no longer has an appendix, wishes he'd never sold his '62 Ford F-100, loves Yahtzee, Voted for Obama, speaks a number of languages including "drunk" and "baby", pulled a train with his teeth through Raton Pass, and intends to learn how to make marionette puppets in 2009.
WHAT OTHER'S ARE SAYING ABOUT ROD LACY:
"More than a year after recording the thing, local Rod Lacy, formerly of Weldon, pulled together a band (The Old Main) to release a disc of lilt, twang and alt.country/folk juice. He handles all the instruments on the CD, though he says he didn't know how to play any of them until he started fiddling around in the studio. Textures figure heavily into the first couple of tracks, with ambient noise invited in for a spell. Clearly a solid songwriter and guitar player, it's the rest of the instruments, a little wild in their newness, that really work for me."---Marisa Demarco (Alibi, Sonic Reducer)
"Beautiful instrumentals throughout I liked the piano/ keyboard backdrop in many of the songs esp. ‘Notes Scribbled in Dirt‘ and ’Truck and Shovel” . Sound is very diverse, a mixture of blues sadness, southern country rock, with a kick of strong guitar riffs. Overall very mellow with lyrics that are real without the overused commercial phrases that spell everything out for you."
---Zoey (CD BABY)
