Luke Bell (1990–2022) was an American country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for the crowd-pulling songs Where or Been? (2017), The Bullfighter, and Jealous Guy (2021). Luke Bell was found dead in Tucson, Arizona on August 29, 2022, after disappearing on August 20, 2022.
Wiki/Biography
Luke Bell was born on January 27, 1990 (age 32 years; as of 2022), in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. He moved to Wyoming with his family when he was 2 years old. He attended Cody High School, from which he graduated in 2008. A native of Cody, Wyoming, Bell attended college in Laramie for a few years before becoming interested in music. He began playing music in a local bar during his college years, where he met singer-songwriter Pat Reedy. In an interview he talked about the beginning of his musical journey and said,
I went there for a few years, and just attended some classes and a lot of parties…I just started playing music. There’s a bar called the Buckhorn in Laramie, and there was a great community of people there, and I formed a little band. That was the first kind of band thing that I had, and I did that for a while. I was having fun but I don’t know, I just dropped out and went away.”
Music led him to spend some time in Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana. He moved to Austin in 2011 and formed a rock and roll band called ‘Fast Luke and the Lead Heavy’, which occasionally performed at the Hole in the Wall bar near the University of Texas campus. At the Hole in the Wall, a man named Dennis O’Donnell, who worked as a bartender, allowed Luke to perform on stage from time to time. In an interview, Luke talked about Dennis O’Donnell and said,
When I first went there it was $1.50 High Life at the Hole in the Wall on Monday nights, and there was Mike and the Moonpies, Leo Rondeau and Ramsey Midwood, and I was living on a couch on the premises and walking there. Could every day. I hung out there every day for about six days and harassed the bartender Dennis O’Donnell until he said, ‘Okay kid, come in and play 3 songs at 3 o’clock while I’m setting up the chairs. ‘
The band played there from 3 to 5 pm every day, but eventually, he was harassed for playing too loudly and was eventually fired. Later, Dennis O’Donnell opened the White Horse Bar on the east side of Austin. After this, Luke Bell got a regular performance slot on the stage of the White Horse. He lived in Austin for two years and recorded his self-titled debut album, and then he spent a brief time busking on the streets in New Orleans before returning to Wyoming with his stray pit bull in a 1995 Buick LeSabre.
Luke Bell posing with his 1995 Buick LeSabre and his stray pitbull
Next, he went on a tour of Oregon with Pat Reedy. Later, he moved to Nashville, where he began performing regularly at the infamous Santa’s Pub. In Nashville, Tennessee, they recorded their 2014 album “Don’t Mind If I Do” and caught the attention of talent agency WME.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: blue
Family
Not much information is available about his family.
livelihood
In 2012, he released his eponymous studio album. In 2014, they found their way to Nashville where they released their second studio album ‘Don’t Mind If I Do’, released on Bandcamp.
Subsequently, Nashville talent agency WME signed him, and soon he began opening concerts for American country musicians Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Jr. and Dwight Yoakam. In 2016, Bell signed a record deal with the Thirty Tigers agency and released a self-titled studio album, Luke Bell, which featured Southern country, light-hearted bluegrass, and dramatic, soulful blues. The album took most of the best songs from Don’t Mind If I Do and combined them with some new tracks. During his concerts, he often played with Cal Tyson, Johnny Appleseed, and Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Matt Kinman. In 2017, the Pickathon Music Festival, an annual three-day music festival located just outside of Portland, Oregon, booked Luke. At the festival, Luke and Kinman played together.
Luke Bell and Matt Kinman
After winning Best Honky Tonk Male at the Dale Watson Ameripolitan Awards in 2018, Luke Bell virtually disappeared from the public eye due to bipolar disorder. His singles include ‘Where Ya Been?’ Is included. (2017) and Jealous Guy (2021). Their songs ‘Sometimes’ and ‘Loretta’ were featured in the Ashton Kutcher-led series The Ranch on Netflix in 2016. In 2021, Luke Bell collaborated with Martha Spencer to perform a cover of the song “Dublin Blues” as a tribute to Guy. Clarke on the occasion of her 80th birthday, uploaded to Martha Spencer’s eponymous YouTube channel.
Death
On August 29, 2022, Luke Bell was found dead in Tucson, Arizona. Bell reportedly went missing on August 20, 2022 in Tucson, where he was headed for a concert. Luke was suffering from bipolar disorder since 2018. Although Luke began to recover, his mental condition worsened while he was in Tucson with Matt Kinman. Apparently, when Matt went to get something to eat, Luke ran away after which he disappeared. While Luke was still missing, Matt reported that a change in Luke’s medication may have played a role in his disappearance.
Facts/General Knowledge
- In 2015, the American monthly magazine Rolling Stone described Luke Bell as a singer who “plays classic honky-tonk with a wink and a yodel that haunts the nation’s sleeping ghosts better than any voodoo magic.” “Calls from.”
- In February of 2018, Luke won Best Honky Tonk Male at the Dale Watson-supported Ameripolitan Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.
Luke Bell at the Ameripolitan Awards (2018)
- He enjoyed consuming alcoholic beverages.
- He was an occasional smoker.
Luke Bell is smoking a cigarette
- He had a tattoo of mountains and a fence on his right arm, with the caption, “Don’t trap me in the fence.”
Luke Bell’s tattoo
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