Hey, I'm Nora Jones, and today I'm playing along with Lucas Nelson.

I'm just playing along with you.

I'm just playing along with you.

Hi, welcome to the show.

I'm Nora, and with me, as always is Sarah Oda.

Hello. Today our guest is Lucas Nelson. Incredible.

Nelson.

Incredible musician, songwriter, all around human.

Seriously, he's like as genuine as they come. He's the front man of Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Reel, who have released several albums, but they have also backed the legendary Neil Young, which is one of the times that we saw him. Oh, we saw that tour. It was amazing. Yes. Them playing with Neil, it was great. When Puss and Boots opened for them in, I think that was 2015. Oh, yeah, I opened for him on that tour.

That was so fun.

That was the first time I played drums on stage was opening for Neil Young, which is silly.

Insane.

Promise of the Real was also the band in A Starsborn that backed up Bradley Cooper's character.

That's right.

He was hired as the like

authenticity consultant. Yeah, which was, I love that title. It's, it's a fun title. And it's also a

great thing to have on a music film because usually they do not seem authentic. They don't get it right.

No, this one really did. And it was so great. I agree. That's why,

you know, it's hard to remake a movie and have it be as good as the original, but I feel like

they kind of nailed it. It was its own thing. Yeah. Yeah, it was beautiful. I first met Lucas in 2003

when he was a young man running around the aisles in the Ryman Theater in Nashville.

And I was there to play for his dad's 70th birthday, his dad, Willie Nelson.

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