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Australian roots music – it’s a sense of place. In the world reflected in the dead setters new album you’ll encounter ghosts of the past & yearning spirits of the present, making themselves known in a variety of familiar locales, including a faded milk bar in inner-western Sydney (Shopping Town), wasted youth drag racing on Sydney’s Great Western Highway (Whitewall Tyres), and a lonely man obsessed with a long gone Australian silent movie star (Until She’s Mine – Lotte Lyell’s Blues), together with a motley cast of misfits & dreamers who could fit in just about anywhere there’s people & stories to tell.
Mark’s fourth album with long-time collaborators, the dead setters, sees a return to the Laughing Outlaw family (his first two solo albums were label releases in the 1999 & 2001), bringing with him a band with a reputation for delivering dynamic live shows drawing from a broad and earthy palette, but never straying far from the narrative tradition & some pithy observations on life & humanity. Not unlike contemporaries such as label-mates Perry Keyes & Jason Walker, they’ve discovered that’s there’s a rich vein of life in their home-town.

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She made me sit up
She made me smile
She made me curse the wasted years
She made me laugh at time
I’d been living in a heart of darkness
Till the day I realized
That I’d been driving down loves highway
With her headlights in my eyes

Now there’s a summer breeze blowing
Across these winter nights
Sometimes it seems even the farthest dreams
Are close enough to blind
Beauty is no stranger here
Just a little harder to find
And I’ve been driving down loves highway
With her headlights in my eyes

And I’m burning all my bridges now
And bathing in the light
Driving down loves highway
With my darling at my side


Now the open road smells of clean hay
As it falls before the scythe
And even the hands of time are smiling
Across a mackerel sky
And I want you to be here with me
Because I know you cannot read the signs
As you’re driving down loves highway
With her headlights in your eyes
As you’re driving down loves highway
With her headlights in your eyes

credits

from Putting on the Dog (2011), track released January 1, 2011
Words & Music- Mark Lucas
Produced by Michael Carpenter & Mark Lucas
Dead Setters:
Mark Lucas - vox, guitar
Jake Lardot - guitar
Steve Gunning - drums, vox
Chris Mearns - bass, vox
Damien Odell - pedal steel guitar
Jim Conway- harp

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Mark Lucas Sydney, Australia

Australian roots music – it’s a sense of place. In singer-songwriter Mark Lucas' word picture world you’ll encounter ghosts of the past & yearning spirits of the present, making themselves known in a variety of familiar locales, together with a motley cast of misfits & dreamers who could fit in just about anywhere there’s people & stories to tell. ... more

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