Tours: Lucero documentary to premiere at CMJ

The "uncompromising" documentary Lucero documentary Dreaming in America

from New York filmmaker Aaron Goldman will be premiered during CMJ on Friday September 16th at the Loews Cineplex State Theatre 1540 Broadway (inside the Virgin Megastore) at 7:30pm. The DVD release will follow on October 11th on Lucero's own Liberty and Lament imprint, and a special DVD+CD issue is planned which will include a separate live Lucero performance on CD.

The film is described as:

From their troubled past, to the recording of their new album Nobody's Darlings, Dreaming in America, by New York Filmmaker Aaron Goldman, serves as an emotional testimony of a band that makes music because they love it, they're compelled to, and their lives depend on it. It is the story of a blue-collar rock group's fight to exist and thrive since they formed in the late 90's. Dreaming in America starts with the band between labels and, though they had sold north of 20,000 records, the boys had not earned a single cent through royalties.

Inspired by films like D.A Pennebaker's classic Don't Look Back, Jem Cohen's Fugazi documentary, Instrument, and I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, the highly acclaimed Wilco movie by Sam Jones, Dreaming in America takes a brutally honest look at a brutally honest band. The film documents Lucero's seemingly endless travels as they slug it out on the road, playing more than 250 shows a year, recording in a barn with legendary producer Jim Dickinson and trying to find their home in an ever changing music industry.

To celebrate the film's release, and in continued support of this year's Jim Dickinson-produced Nobody's Darlings, Lucero will head out on 3 separate legs of a September-December fall tour.

You can click Read More for the first two legs of the tour. A third stretch with American Princes and Southern Bitch is expected to be confirmed soon.