Eric Lowen - 6- and 12-string guitars, mandolin. lead and harmony vocals. . . . . . Dan Navarro - 6-string acoustic guitars, some keyboards, percussion, lead and harmony vocals. . . . . . . with Phil Parlapiano on accordion, piano, organ, on the road and in the studio.
Influences
Beyond influences by this time. . . influenced as kids by Bob Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Woody Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkel, Byrds, Jackson Browne, Ray Charles, Nick Drake, Nick Lowe, Frank Sinatra, Motown, Aaron Copland, bubblegum, Wilson Pickett, Righteous Bros, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Springsteen, every tight harmony vocal duo on the face of the earth, and the salad days of American Top 40.
Sounds Like
Like any of the great duos -- Simon & Garfunkel, Everly Bros, Indigo Girls, Righteous Bros, BoDeans, Rembrandts, Hall & Oates, The Louvins, Sam & Dave, John & Paul, Crosby & Nash, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds, Brewer & Shipley, Bobby & James Purify -- Lowen & Navarro weave tight vocals into a thick sonic fabric, with their original songs coming from the perspective of a rich and deep experience.
For Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro, the road is home, the stage is the runway and the studio the garden. Songs of loss and change, hope and acceptance, fear and deliverance color their seven studio albums. Voices locked in synchro-step weaving in and out of the flow, telling stories of real lives in the balance. The connections between singer and song, between audience and stage melt into a rich brew that brings them deeper into the heart of the matter and that much closer to the fire in the hearts of their people. There is no road too long that their people don't travel far and wide to see and hear them. As it has been for over twenty years, it still is today.
Presently centered in the crosshairs is their newest release, out July 24, 2008, "Learning To Fall". Seen through the lens of the realizations that come with living some of our dreams, releasing those that may never come to pass, and dealing with the acceptance of now as the only reality. The pattern of wanting and waiting, balanced with holding on and letting go, informs all the songs on "Learning To Fall" and makes them the truest, while sometimes most stark, expressions L&N have ever put on disk.
Much of what is said is seen through the filter of ALS, the neuromuscular disease contracted by Eric Lowen in 2003. His realizations have been revelatory, without moroseness or rage, nor precious sentiment, but are rather the simple statements of life lived at the crux.
The album features stellar musicians -- eternal sidekick
Phil Parlapiano on pianos, organs, accordion, mandolins and guitar, Taras Prodaniuk (Richard Thompson), Hutch Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt), and Rafe Bradford on bass; Don Heffington (Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris) on drums and percussion; Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, Dave Alvin), Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams), and Phil Hurley (Stonehoney, Gigolo Aunts) on guitars, David Ewart on violin, and Wendy Waldman, Julie Christensen, Jeanne Jolly, Shawn Davis, Nick Randolph and Phil Hurley on vocals.
Production was helmed by the legendary Jim Scott, a Grammy winner for his work with Tom Petty, Carlos Santana, Foo Fighters and The Dixie Chicks, as well as critically praised work with Wilco, Whiskeytown, Kathleen Edwards, Johnny Cash and many others.
Three tracks are available above, and the album can be purchased in CD form or downloaded as 256k MP3s at the Lowen & Navarro website at http://www.lownav.com .
Stopping by to wish you a fantastic week!!! Hope all is going great with you!!! Check out my newest single Whipping Post on Texas radio NOW!!! Love, ~Susan Hickman www.susanhickman.com www.reverbnation.com/susanhickman www.twitter.com/susanhickman
I see that EFO was at BlackRock last weekend while I was away! I thought of you guys, naturally. That's probably why I dreamed about you last night, come to think of it. (It was very sweet.)
Today I would like to let you know about two print magazines in Germany I'm writing for.
"Living Line Dance", reporting about line dance and country music, and "Folk Magazine", reporting about folk and country music. The magazines are high respected in Europe. They offer you a good chance to publicize yourself in Europe and Germany.
For more information, please contact me at MySpace or send email to Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de with the headline "Advertise at Living Line Dance and Folk Magazine".
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Phone +49 6101 544613 Mobil +49 171 6903352 www.myspace.com/ChristianLamitschka www.myspace.com/LamitschkaVideoInterviews www.myspace.com/CountryMusicInterviews www.myspace.com/HelpCharity
Today I would like to let you know about two print magazines in Germany I'm writing for.
"Living Line Dance", reporting about line dance and country music, and "Folk Magazine", reporting about folk and country music. The magazines are high respected in Europe. They offer you a good chance to publicize yourself in Europe and Germany.
For more information, please contact me at MySpace or send email to Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de with the headline "Advertise at Living Line Dance and Folk Magazine".
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Phone +49 6101 544613 Mobil +49 171 6903352 www.myspace.com/ChristianLamitschka www.myspace.com/LamitschkaVideoInterviews www.myspace.com/CountryMusicInterviews www.myspace.com/HelpCharity
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Happy Thursday!!! Thanks for being such a great friend!!!! YOU ROCK!!! Have a great week!!!!!
If you are around Friday August 28th I'll be having a big show at Tumbleweed Texas with the Spiffingtons in Houston Texas I really hope to see you there!!!
If you sign up on my mailing list this week you will be entered in the drawing for a copy of my new self-titled CD Susan Hickman. you also get a free download just for singing up. Just fill in the mailing list form on my MySpace page!!! Hope you have a great week!!! Love ~Susan www.susanhickman.com
respect you guys BIG TIME!! great songs!! we hear you on XRT in chicago. always a sweet listen! thanks for the connect. blessings to you and yours. glenn
Another soul garage grooovy get down comin' atcha!!
BULLET 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Live performance from THE MORLOCKS! Saturday July 18th - Vine Bar Hollywood This is going to be an EPIC NIGHT you do not want to miss!
CountryHome Forum, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , is one of the biggest Forum for country music in Europe and part of CountryHome, www.countryhome.de , Germany's Premier Online Country Music Magazine.
CountryHome Forum have more than 5,000 members. Each news you submit to CountryHome Forum will released to my weekly Newsletter with more than 50,000 readers.
Please submit your artist news and events to CountryHome Forum to help your artists to get well known better in Europe. If you do not have the time to submit your artist news and events by yourself, please send it me to: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de and I will submit them by myself to CountryHome Forum.
I know that many artists from North America don't have their music videos uploaded to German video websites. The most popular websites are MyVideo.de and ClipFish.de. That means your European audience does not have the chance to find them.
I understand that most of you don't speak German and are not able to upload videos because of the language barrier. If you would like me to upload your videos to the German video websites, please let me know.
Thanks
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de
rescued from the eighties!!! alkes-fradkin co-authors of the Plimsouls' million miles away. With their “girls in this town” And “Missing In Action.” Sunday at Noon (Eastern) on ScrubRadio.com for ShockPop! http://scrubradio.com/
I am asking for your support for Toyota's Rock The Space. All you have to do is add the widget on my MySpace page to your profile. And then start voting the 1st of August till the end of August. I will see all the profiles who post this widget on their page... I will add your name to my thank you blog after you post. Thank you for your support!!!!!
Wrapped Up In Me is on radio stations across the Nation now. Request it NOW at your local radio station! If you sign up on my mailing list this week you will be entered in the drawing for a copy of my new self-titled CD Susan Hickman. you also get a free download just for singing up. Just fill in the mailing list form on my MySpace page!!! Hope you have a great week!!! Love ~Susan www.susanhickman.com
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