Catching up, and sitting down, with singer-songwriter Tony Lucca after his one-man show at The Vinyl, in Atlanta, Ga on June 25, was something of a treat considering his jet-lag and schmooze session with eager fans. Lucca has had a career that has spanned 6 studio albums and a countless number of tour dates. More comfortable now with an element of pop thrown into his usual mix of acoustic folk and rock, here’s an artist who doesn’t stop evolving, no matter how slightly.
With no topic off-limits; the music industry, relationships, creepy fans on youtube, and a difficult past, amongst many things, Lucca presents himself as he truly is; a passionately opinionated, die-hard lover of genuine music, with a lot to honestly look forward to in life.
HW: Your upcoming album, out July 13, is titled Rendezvous With The Angels. It sounds more like a phrase of affection than anything else, it’s really sweet. Can you tell me what sparked it?
TL: Yeah, it’s actually taken from a line in one of the songs, there’s a song called “Love Light” on the record, and it’s about a trip to the hospital for the birth of my baby. I refer to the ride with the angels when she was born.
HW: Awww!
TL: It was like the angels were going to bring us our baby girl.
HW: Your other angel!
TL: Our other angel! Yeah. So that’s what that was. And the end result was that there was a very blessed element to this album that earlier records didn’t quite have. I’ve had wonderful people who’ve been supporting me in various ways, not the very least, financially, for years now. You know, getting behind the record and really allowing me the time and space to create freely and without, you know (pauses).
HW: Too much restriction?
TL: Yeah, without too much restriction or any type of criticism you know. Just a real free environment. So yeah, there’s a couple of songs on the record about that, about my baby girl.
HW: So you said this record is about “the ebb and flow of love”. Is this description of it different from your previous work?
TL: Yeah. I mean, my first record was just this whole break-up record masked in a Jazz ensemble thing, sort of like a big glitch. And over the years I’ve found ways of writing songs of scorn and good love gone bad, and it’s not where I was when trying to make this record. There’s more songs about accepting aspects of relationships.
There are a couple of songs about love leaving and returning. Pointing a finger at someone and walking out the door and saying “I never want to see you again” I mean, that’s easy. After a while, after doing that enough times, you realize its just- it’s theatre, psychological theatre, you’re playing out egocentric behavior that works in the moment and in the backside you’re writing “Oh I miss you, I need you”, that song. And I’ve written those songs, and I’ve actually included one of those on this record. But in terms of newer material on the record, I was coming from a different place.
HW: How do you think the fans who’ve been following you and been with you since album number one, will take in RWTA?
TL: Given the timing they’ll probably see it as a really nice chapter. Especially coming off the last record, the last one was a bit more rock-oriented. I don’t think I lost any fans on the last record, and I made some newer fans who were like “Ooo electric guitars, rock and roll”. But people who are fans of my particular type of music won’t be disappointed.
- It seems that as much as you sing and write from your own heart and your own experiences, you very much do it for others as well, for people who can find meaning in where you are in life. Is this accurate?
- Would you say you’ve stood your ground in terms of music?
- How do you think is music is represented and perceived these days, just overall?
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