Lucas Jack writes the kind of songs that sound like they’ve been on the radio for forty years and were waiting for someone to catch up. The St. Louis–based artist grew up in Michigan, hunting down unguarded pianos in bars, hotel lobbies, and church halls — a kid raised on Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits, late-night Delilah dedications, and the soft-rock canon of Hornsby, Loggins, Hall and Oates, and the Doobie Brothers. He went on to practice law in Chicago before trading the certainty of a legal career for a Texas move and a full-time run at music in 2012.
What followed was a decade of bar gigs from Corpus Christi to Chicago, a few self-released records, and the assembly of a band — bassist Justin Schneider and drummer Mike Gomez. His 2023 album Bittersweet is Better started turning heads, racking up 2.5 million streams and helping push his total catalogue past five million.
His new album, Time Machine, is the most fully realized record he’s made. Tracked with Schneider and Gomez at The Boardroom in St. Louis and Neon Cowboy Studios in Austin, the twelve-song LP moves from the yacht-rock glow of “San Antonio” to the rain-on-windshield ache of “Lie To Me” to the Rocky-montage adrenaline of “Imma Do It.” Lead singles “Back in the Rhythm” (May 29) and “Michigan Summer Nights” (June 26) precede the full release in late July 2026.
It’s a record about marriage, fatherhood, memory, and the strange grace of getting older without losing the rhythm.