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“Ted Lucas knew his music was important, even if the world around him failed to recognize it. Though he didn’t live to see his work resonate with listeners all over the world, the masterpiece album he created is a testament to true art always, eventually, finding its way to those who need it most.” -Mike Dutkewych, archivist
Lucas was a prominent figure in the Detroit music and counterculture scenes of the 1960s and ’70s. Known as an eccentric beatnik, prodigious guitarist, and trained sitarist under Ravi Shankar, those who witnessed Lucas at this time recall him as the most talented guitarist and songwriter to never make it out— an artist who should have been as revered as Joni Mitchell or John Fahey. Instead, his was the classic story of a prodigious, struggling genius out of step with the world around him. Even so, Ted Lucas managed to craft one masterpiece album in 1975 that, sadly, very few ever heard in his lifetime.
Lucas was a prominent figure in the Detroit music and counterculture scenes of the 1960s and ’70s. Known as an eccentric beatnik, prodigious guitarist, and trained sitarist under Ravi Shankar, those who witnessed Lucas at this time recall him as the most talented guitarist and songwriter to never make it out— an artist who should have been as revered as Joni Mitchell or John Fahey. Instead, his was the classic story of a prodigious, struggling genius out of step with the world around him. Even so, Ted Lucas managed to craft one masterpiece album in 1975 that, sadly, very few ever heard in his lifetime.
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