Interview: Singer-Songwriter Austin Lucas is Alive in the Hot Zone on New Album
“Honestly, I never set about to write about what was going on. I just did,” says singer-songwriter Austin Lucas of his latest album, Alive in the Hot Zone. Lucas wrote and recorded the album while thousands of miles away from his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. As he quarantined with his partner in Germany, he felt a sense of guilt for not being with his Stateside comrades during this tumultuous year. “I felt like I was not experiencing something that everyone else from the place that I am from was experiencing,” he says. “And that doesn’t mean that I have not been experiencing COVID-19 lockdown, and haven’t been experiencing terror, anxiety, and all that different stuff. But I was so far removed from everybody that I was close with that I felt like I was experiencing a thing...
