Ted Lucas - Images Of Life - Deluxe Edition - Very Limited

Jonah Says: "Third Man Records are doing absolute wonders for fans of the weird & wonderful right now, folks. Ted Lucas is cut from the same cloth as your Nick Drake's n' Bert Jansch's. A tremendously underrated guitar player and musician in general. Hailing from Detroit and only ever releasing one album (which is fantastic), Lucas has remained a cult figure for decades. This latest Third Man deluxe package looks absolutely fantastic. Full to the brim of psychedelic folk and ethereal guitar pickin'."
 
Hundreds of hours of tapes—carefully preserved by Lucas himself—reveal decades of unheard music, from the Spike-Drivers to the Misty Wizards to the Horny Toads with a 1970s collection capturing Ted at the height of his early creative power. And, finally, recordings from the remainder of the 70s reinventing himself as an electric rock musician, assembling new bands, recording a brilliantly hook-laden but ultimately unfinished, lost second album.

Images Of Life is the career-spanning retrospective boxset illuminating the staggering breadth and depth of Detroit's unheralded songwriting genius, Ted Lucas. Disc one, "Strange Mysterious Sounds (1965-1970)", highlights Ted's flirtation with psychedelic major label clout via his bands the Spike Drivers, the Misty Wizards and the Horny Toads. "Rainy Days (1970-1974)" will be the solo acoustic warmth and charm most familiar to folks already aware of Ted's self-titled "OM" album from 1975. "Impossible Love (1979)", the lost second album, finds Ted smooth and nearly "yacht rock" while never betraying the true artistry and craft of the once-in-a-generation talent of Ted Lucas
 
 
Released 22nd May 2026