A piano. An old acoustic guitar. A few drum presets, a couple of shameless samples and a high-pitched DJ tag ripped from a YouTube video. On Citizen’s Arrest, Cooper B. Handy grabs a few simple ingredients from the shelf and cooks up a surprisingly nutritious meal, skipping the unnecessary garnish to cut straight to the core. Like Elliot Smith or Jonathan Richman or Daniel Johnson, LUCY has the knack of making the surely-quite-difficult art of songwriting seem like a breeze. This is true folk music.
