Ben Stalets - Lucky Dog (2025)
BAND/ARTIST: Ben Stalets
- Title: Lucky Dog
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Ben Stalets
- Genre: Folk Rock
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:39:10
- Total Size: 92 / 222 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Florida
02. Tomorrow
03. Lucky Dog
04. I've Been Learning
05. So What?
06. Roofing Song
07. Daddy Too
08. Protection
09. Break Even
10. Too Long in the Tooth
Lucky Dog is a long-time comin’. Toledo-based artist Ben Stalets took nearly three years to pen it. And when one thinks of the artist? The word ‘roots’ immediately comes to mind. There’s an exceptional type of magic that arises in a musician when they honor where they come from and who they’ve been. This LP consists of ten Midwestern vignettes (or rather, characters) who are fully fleshed out. Each song manages to provide a completely different flavor, as if we are opening a new book each time the track changes (while sonically remaining in the same groovin’ wheelhouse).
The opener “Florida” has hints of blues baked inside the heart of its stompy, satisfying sound. The moment the artist opens his mouth to sing, we are not just listening, but are rather impacted by his crisp vocals. Then, throughout the entire album, there are these little coy lines that immediately make us want to laugh out loud… like ‘despite the old white republicans’ or ‘Now I’ve been replaced by- Chad’ “I got my ass beat beneath the jungle gym” and “And god I love…her…rack!” His sound lingers like a single-malt oak-barrel aged liquor tickles your tongue long after the glass is already finished..Sweet, but fiery. In just one track, we feel weather-worn (as if we’ve already lived a lot of life alongside Ben). If “Florida” were escapism, then “Lucky Dog” is an American blue-collar corrido. It has unexpected chromatism, and hope nestled inside hopelessness like a stacking doll. The further we get into the title track, the more corridos-esque it becomes. A gun gets involved…a melodious steel slide comments accordingly… Lucky Dog encompasses playfulness, blatant human desire, and brutal honesty all at once. And isn’t that how life serves us things, anyway?
“I’ve Been Learning” gives us a gritty-but-peppy flavor amidst the light-footed guitar and shuffling drums. Throughout the self-aware collection of tunes, we resonate with what it feels like to be the little man: a proletariat, or a bird trapped in a cage where the door has always been shut. Midway through the album, “So What” culminates into a palatable duet between an ornamental rhythm guitar part and then a smooth-but-unconstrained electric solo. It’s at this point in the LP that the singer’s voice takes on a new hue.
Then there’s “Roofing Song,” the album’s working-class waltz. Next, “Daddy Too” lays down the line with a boundary and expresses how much work fatherhood is. Then, in the next breath, “Protection” shows us the sultry, tongue-in-cheek side of life.
01. Florida
02. Tomorrow
03. Lucky Dog
04. I've Been Learning
05. So What?
06. Roofing Song
07. Daddy Too
08. Protection
09. Break Even
10. Too Long in the Tooth
Lucky Dog is a long-time comin’. Toledo-based artist Ben Stalets took nearly three years to pen it. And when one thinks of the artist? The word ‘roots’ immediately comes to mind. There’s an exceptional type of magic that arises in a musician when they honor where they come from and who they’ve been. This LP consists of ten Midwestern vignettes (or rather, characters) who are fully fleshed out. Each song manages to provide a completely different flavor, as if we are opening a new book each time the track changes (while sonically remaining in the same groovin’ wheelhouse).
The opener “Florida” has hints of blues baked inside the heart of its stompy, satisfying sound. The moment the artist opens his mouth to sing, we are not just listening, but are rather impacted by his crisp vocals. Then, throughout the entire album, there are these little coy lines that immediately make us want to laugh out loud… like ‘despite the old white republicans’ or ‘Now I’ve been replaced by- Chad’ “I got my ass beat beneath the jungle gym” and “And god I love…her…rack!” His sound lingers like a single-malt oak-barrel aged liquor tickles your tongue long after the glass is already finished..Sweet, but fiery. In just one track, we feel weather-worn (as if we’ve already lived a lot of life alongside Ben). If “Florida” were escapism, then “Lucky Dog” is an American blue-collar corrido. It has unexpected chromatism, and hope nestled inside hopelessness like a stacking doll. The further we get into the title track, the more corridos-esque it becomes. A gun gets involved…a melodious steel slide comments accordingly… Lucky Dog encompasses playfulness, blatant human desire, and brutal honesty all at once. And isn’t that how life serves us things, anyway?
“I’ve Been Learning” gives us a gritty-but-peppy flavor amidst the light-footed guitar and shuffling drums. Throughout the self-aware collection of tunes, we resonate with what it feels like to be the little man: a proletariat, or a bird trapped in a cage where the door has always been shut. Midway through the album, “So What” culminates into a palatable duet between an ornamental rhythm guitar part and then a smooth-but-unconstrained electric solo. It’s at this point in the LP that the singer’s voice takes on a new hue.
Then there’s “Roofing Song,” the album’s working-class waltz. Next, “Daddy Too” lays down the line with a boundary and expresses how much work fatherhood is. Then, in the next breath, “Protection” shows us the sultry, tongue-in-cheek side of life.
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