It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing) : A Tribute to Ted Lucas

Jeffrey Silverstein has teamed up with Perpetual Doom to curate a full-length tribute compilation, featuring a createive array of artists to celebrate Ted Lucas, the largely underground Detroit psych-stoner-rocker of rock and roll’s golden era, the late 1960s and 1970s.

Lucas was Motown’s “exotic string” specialist before he moved to LA and started several bands like the Horny Toads, the Misty Wizards, the Androids, and Boogie Disease. He released a self-titled solo album that largely flew under the radar until it resissue by Yoga Records in 2010.

Today, Jeffrey Silverstein and Perpetual Doom are sharing the first two singles from the tribute compilation.  Shannon Lay’s version of “Baby Where You Are” wraps the melody in a sense of snowy isolation, the minimal instrumentation emphasizing the unadorned longing of the lyrics. Future Museums resonant deconstruction of “Love & Peace Raga” takes the listener on a pensive trip through the album’s close.

Other contributors include Silverstein and Ryan Oxford, Anna St. Louis, John Andrews & The Yawns, Julianna Barwick and William Tyler, Small Sur and Chorusing, Amelia Courthouse, and Barry Walker Jr. a

Ten percent of album sales will be split between the Detroit-based charities Seven Mile Music and Detroit Sound Conservancy. Pre-order It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing) here.

LA-based illustrator and artist Jess Rotter created the gorgeous artwork.