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 .
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Hi Lowen & Navarro, I absolutely love your music! I listened to every song and really enjoyed them all!
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Thinking of you, Eric and Dan, as you play your last two shows together back East tomorrow and Saturday. Wish I could be there. Sending my love and Skip would want me to send his as well.
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