If you’ve been in or around a Ben Nichols solo show (or I guess his Instagram) over the past year or so, you may have heard rumors that the Lucero frontman has been hard at work on a solo up. Details were obviously scarce, but you can find YouTube snippets of working versions of a few tracks if you try hard enough. And so it may have come by surprise to some that the follow up to Lucero’s last studio record – 2023’s Should’ve Learned By Now – was not a new Nichols solo record and not a new original Lucero record, but a secret third option: an unplugged record that features a mix of classic Lucero tracks combined with some deep (and some SUPER deep) cuts, and starring not the full band but just Nichols and longtime Lucero sideman Rick Steff. “Rick a...