Meet Lucian Greene

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Lucian Greene a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Lucian, so excited to have you with us today, particularly to get your insight on a topic that comes up constantly in the community – overcoming creativity blocks. Any thoughts you can share with us?

For me, I just have to stay positive. I’ve never been able to really sit down and try to write a song. I have to feel inspired. But I know that inspiration will come, so I just have to try and not get down on myself when I go through those rough patches where I’m not feeling creative.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

Still Moves formed in late 2021. We’ve released two EP’s, and just put out a self-titled album on August 30th. The new record, along with everything else we have released, was produced in house by Isaac Frost. If you’re wanting to check out a live show, our next show is at The Underdog in Nashville, TN on November 22nd. We’re sharing a bill with The Dwayne Haggins Band and Lorrenzo Piccone, and the show starts at 6:30. We also have a handful of new songs, and are currently making plans to start recording them in the near future.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I would say resilience, diligence, and compromise are the first three things I can think of for our journey. I say resilience because the music business is a jungle, and it is a tough task to try and stay positive when things don’t always work out the way you planned. It’s easy to get down on yourself and let those negative thoughts creep in. I also feel you have to be diligent and keep creating and playing as much as possible. Staying active has definitely helped us out. And last but not least, compromising has been a necessity for our band. We have very similar musical styles, but also very different. This can lead to conflicts when you’re creating music. We’ve been pretty good so far at compromising when these differences come up. I’m thankful for that.

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?

I think the biggest area of growth has been our live performances. We didn’t really play any full band shows before the release of the first two EP’s. Isaac and I would play some acoustic shows, and we may throw an occasional original into a full band cover show. But we definitely hadn’t developed a Still Moves live show. In the last year we have been playing a ton. The big thing is, we’ve kept basically the same lineup. Cody Kirby started playing drums shortly after the second EP, and Dalton Akins has been our bass player for close to a year now. Each show feels tighter and more dynamic than the last. I’m hoping this will also translate over the next time we start to record.

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