Ben Nichols’ voice suffuses me with an intense yearning that I never could find the right words to articulate, not now and not on all those relentlessly empty nights in what felt like the exact middle of nowhere, when listening to Lucero records was the only thing that pulled me through to the morning.When he sings I would forget you if I only could/Think about anything else, my heart doesn’t know how to do anything but seize up.

Ben Nichols’ voice suffuses me with an intense yearning that I never could find the right words to articulate, not now and not on all those relentlessly empty nights in what felt like the exact middle of nowhere, when listening to Lucero records was the only thing that pulled me through to the morning.

When he sings I would forget you if I only could/Think about anything else, my heart doesn’t know how to do anything but seize up.