Cargo Records

The Chronicles of Solomon Quick

Rattling out of the Thames Delta area of Essex, the spiritual home of British Blues, The Lucky Strikes unleash their second album via East London’s Stovepony Records. On The Chronicles Of Solomon Quick, this young garage-blues’n’country quartet deliver tales of outlaws, desperadoes and chain gangs in 1930s Mississippi, telling the fictional story of the man responsible for the death of singer and guitarist Robert Johnson.

The sprawling 13-track album blurs reality and fiction, sanity and madness, morality and infamy.The band’s singer, Tom Keenan, was formerly in popular hard rock band Phoenix Motorcade, who built up a big following across the South-East mid-decade, playing numerous gigs and festivals and receiving substantial airplay. Alighting on a number of styles, this album will appeal to fans of indie, blues, punk, classic rock and alt.country; even nu-folk fans may be interested!

The Lucky Strikes are the rightful heirs to their throne. The packaging reflects the band’s high ideals and will look particularly attractive in the racks. The Lucky Strikes’ self-titled debut album was released in 2008 and has sold out of its first pressing of 1,000 through word of mouth and the band’s constant gigging. One of the tracks from the debut ‘Ain't Coming Home’ was used in the US series Life which aired on NBC in the States in November.