Ben Nichols is American alt country musician, best known for being the frontman for alt.country icons Lucero. His first solo release, The Last Pale Light in the West, was released in January 2009 on Lucero's label Liberty & Lament. On November 17, 2013 the title song from the album featured in the episode "Live Bait" of the AMC series The Walking Dead. In May 2009, Nichols co-starred in MTV's $5 Cover, a quasi-fictionalized series about the Memphis music scene.