Country punk vets Lucero have announced a new album, Should’ve Learned By Now, due February 24 via Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers (pre-order). It was produced by Matt Ross-Spang, and first single "One Last F.U." sounds like classic Lucero. Bandleader Ben Nichols says:
"One Last F.U." is where this whole new record started. It’s a song that was too offensive and goofy to be on the last few Lucero albums. I was dating a girl a while back that lived on the West Coast and I remember thinking to myself "I ain’t gonna be here very long" and that ended up being the first line of the chorus. The phrase "one last fuck you" popped into my head one night later and bam I had a whole chorus. The rest of the song was simply about wanting to be left alone while I drank at the bar. That could be taken in a kind of grumpy/antagonistic way, but I feel okay singing the song because I’ve been both characters at different times. Sometimes I’m the one wanting to be left alone and sometimes I’m the drunk one blabbing all night to someone that just wants to be left alone.
[...] I had a particular sound I was looking for on each record and there was no room for any goofy rock and roll or cute witticisms or even simply upbeat songs. But now finally, it was time to revisit all of that stuff and get it out in the world. That’s how we got to the appropriately-for-us-titled album Should’ve Learned by Now. The album is basically about how we know we are fuckups and I guess we are ok with that.