Though American Romance is technically a debut, Lukas Nelson is hardly a beginner. Between 2008 and 2024, he was the leader of Promise of the Real, a ragged Americana band who sometimes backed up Neil Young on-stage and made records of their own that gradually grew to include elements of jam-band searching and danceable grooves amongst their twangy roots rock.
As the son of country legend Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson was born into his musical path to a degree, and while American Romance is his first solo outing, it comes after decades of work in his own lifetime, and under the incalculable personal and musical influence of his bloodline. All of that being said, there’s still a kind of first-go-round charm to these 12 tunes. Even though Nelson…

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