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The Lucky Strikes are a blues/Americana four piece delivering tales of outlaws, desperadoes and chain gangs in 1930s Mississippi. Their second record, the Chronicles of Solomon Quick tell the fictional story of the man responsible for the death of singer and guitarist Robert Johnson. The sprawling 12 songs blur reality and fiction, sanity and madness and morality vs. infamy.

While Johnson’s murder is the essential backdrop for the album, the seedy lives of a wide range of fictional characters are the focus. Fusing widescreen Americana, garage blues and bar room rock and roll, the record is currently being developed as a novel and screenplay. The intended result is to have more in common with a Nelson Algren novel or a series of the Wire than the generic indie currently being churned out by an endless list of disappointing English bands.

The album is due to be released on April 18

To buy the Lucky Strikes' self-titled debut album go to www.zingg.co.uk