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Released: May 5, 2009
Label: Higher Step Records

General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Indie / Rock

    Location Indiana, US

    Profile Views: 117025

    Last Login: 1/17/2011

    Member Since 7/17/2004

    Website www.exilesuite.com

    Record Label www.higherstep.com

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... With/Without Available May 19th.. .......... .. .. .. .. ...... Click to order a Sam Lowry "Crows" T-Shirt via PayPal!.......... ..Mens - Large $15.00 ..Mens - X-Large $15.00 .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......Click to order a Sam Lowry "Devil Whisper" T-Shirt via PayPal!.......... ..Ladies Medium $15.00 ..Mens Small $15.00 ..Mens Medium $15.00 ..Mens Large $15.00 ..Mens X-Large $15.00 .. .... .. .. .. .. .. ..Over the course of nine years and four critically acclaimed albums, Bloomington, Indiana's Sam Lowry has slowly been perfecting his unique brand of dark Americana, sharpening the cut of his voice and deepening the impact of his words... ..Lowry's autobiographical lyrics have always been fearless in their examination of the complicated relationships of the everyday. The small, noble, and not so noble, reasons we choose to be with others. The commitments of guilt, the despair of solitude, the belief in love, and all the rest... ..Lowry's songwriting occupies the dark corner where the poetry of Leonard Cohen shares a drink with Tom Waits midnight observations, while his albums sonically occupy the kind of adventurous gothic American territory traveled by (smog) and Sparklehorse. Helping Lowry complete his vision is a veritable who's who from the fertile Bloomington music scene; including regular appearances from members of Murder by Death and Early Day Miners... ..Lowry has spent a good portion of the last several years on the road, with over 600 shows, sharing the stage with bands such as Murder by Death, Langhorne Slim, Asobi Seksu, the Good Life, Early Day Miners, Azure Ray, Mock Orange, Lucero, Codeseven, Vedera, Unwed Sailor, Rocky Votolato, the Appleseed Cast, William Elliott Whitmore, Fake Problems, Frontier Ruckus, the Woes, Blind Pilot, Melissa Ferrick and the Hackensaw Boys, playing everything from basements, coffee houses, dive bars and historic theaters to festivals like MACRock, Bloomingtonfest and Pygmalion... ..2009 finds Lowry touring in support of his fifth full-length album, ..With/Without... Unconventionally recorded live in a single day, in the main hall of a church-cum-recording studio, it finds Lowry leading his band comprised of Sarah Balliet (Murder by Death), Sophia Travis and Nathaniel Seer through revisonary versions of older songs coupled with new ones... ..Recorded with only two short rehearsals beforehand, the songs pulse, primordially. They move with the energy of four musicians capturing the shape of a song as it happens, forgoing the gamut of endless practices, multiple tracking and overdubs. This comprises the "with" portion of ..With/Without..... .."Without" finds Lowry alone with his guitar capturing new songs in their most raw form, and radically reworking a handful of old ones into their most primal. With no additional instrumentation, the minimal guitar work places his strongest asset, his lyrics, in the foreground and leaves no doubt that his songwriting places him deservedly in the canon of the greats of his generation.... ....CREATIVE LOAFING ..Dark, brooding, tasty stuff... .. ....CD BABY ..A creative, dark and deep venture into the shared musical crevasse of artists like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. Sparse, empty and despondent, this album slowly oozes its voice from its pores, dropping pools of dark, liquidy hopelessness into a deep well of bottomless imagination. With incomplete thoughts and scattered pieces of wisdom, Sam Lowry weaves a shadowy but stirring album for those who are in no hurry to understand... ....SPLENDID E-ZINE .. If every singer-songwriter had this much power behind such an economy of words, we'd probably all have a higher consciousness by now. Maybe that's what Sam Lowry's nudging us toward, one breathy, retributive melody at a time... ....THE PIN-UP.. Lowry works his songs like small garden snakes, getting the lot primed and ready to strike the hand of another who thinks he can easily charm them. All notions of rustic, or alt.country or what-have-you seems kind of moot by now, and even more when Lowry lowers voice to that parched sing-song vocal... ....CITYBEAT .. With a deflated, Leonard Cohen-like grumble and an unexpected musical backdrop that blends together traditional acoustic instruments like banjo, guitar and fiddle with warm yet tricky drum loops and vintage-sounding keyboards, Lowry has concocted an honest, dark and surprisingly melodic exercise in aural subtlety that works to maximum effect. His textural, slanted and poetic take on Roots music gives new meaning to the phrase "American Gothic." .. ..!!! Start Code To Apply Top Banner !!!!.. ...... ...... .. Custom top banner code by Eileen.. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... ..!!! End Code To Apply Top Banner !!!..

  • Members

    ..Past, present and future members of my ever changing backing band the Circumstance include: ....Jonathan Richardson.. (Early Day Miners)....Sarah Quick..Frank Hall..Sophia Travis..Aaron Distler.. (Duraluxe)....Kit Malone.com..Sarah Balliet.. (Murder by Death)....Sam Crawford.. (Three on the Tree, The Decanters)....Nathaniel Seer..Erika Olifant.. (Air Tight Garage)....Ben Bussel.. (Mt. Gigantic, Mustache).....Rob Ross.. (Sump Pumps)....Jeff Ratner.. (Langhorne SLim)....Casey Lee.. (Fake Problems)....Anne Lillis..(Jessica Lea Mayfield's Band)....Michael Grady......Ann DeVilbiss..

  • Influences

    Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, the The, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello

  • Sounds Like

    Tom Waits, (smog), Sparklehorse, Leonard Cohen

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With/Without Available May 19th


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.. Click to order a Sam Lowry "Crows" T-Shirt via PayPal!
.. .. .. .. .. ..
..Click to order a Sam Lowry "Devil Whisper" T-Shirt via PayPal!
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Over the course of nine years and four critically acclaimed albums, Bloomington, Indiana's Sam Lowry has slowly been perfecting his unique brand of dark Americana, sharpening the cut of his voice and deepening the impact of his words.

Lowry's autobiographical lyrics have always been fearless in their examination of the complicated relationships of the everyday. The small, noble, and not so noble, reasons we choose to be with others. The commitments of guilt, the despair of solitude, the belief in love, and all the rest.

Lowry's songwriting occupies the dark corner where the poetry of Leonard Cohen shares a drink with Tom Waits midnight observations, while his albums sonically occupy the kind of adventurous gothic American territory traveled by (smog) and Sparklehorse. Helping Lowry complete his vision is a veritable who's who from the fertile Bloomington music scene; including regular appearances from members of Murder by Death and Early Day Miners.

Lowry has spent a good portion of the last several years on the road, with over 600 shows, sharing the stage with bands such as Murder by Death, Langhorne Slim, Asobi Seksu, the Good Life, Early Day Miners, Azure Ray, Mock Orange, Lucero, Codeseven, Vedera, Unwed Sailor, Rocky Votolato, the Appleseed Cast, William Elliott Whitmore, Fake Problems, Frontier Ruckus, the Woes, Blind Pilot, Melissa Ferrick and the Hackensaw Boys, playing everything from basements, coffee houses, dive bars and historic theaters to festivals like MACRock, Bloomingtonfest and Pygmalion.

2009 finds Lowry touring in support of his fifth full-length album, With/Without. Unconventionally recorded live in a single day, in the main hall of a church-cum-recording studio, it finds Lowry leading his band comprised of Sarah Balliet (Murder by Death), Sophia Travis and Nathaniel Seer through revisonary versions of older songs coupled with new ones.

Recorded with only two short rehearsals beforehand, the songs pulse, primordially. They move with the energy of four musicians capturing the shape of a song as it happens, forgoing the gamut of endless practices, multiple tracking and overdubs. This comprises the "with" portion of With/Without.

"Without" finds Lowry alone with his guitar capturing new songs in their most raw form, and radically reworking a handful of old ones into their most primal. With no additional instrumentation, the minimal guitar work places his strongest asset, his lyrics, in the foreground and leaves no doubt that his songwriting places him deservedly in the canon of the greats of his generation..

CREATIVE LOAFING Dark, brooding, tasty stuff.

CD BABY A creative, dark and deep venture into the shared musical crevasse of artists like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. Sparse, empty and despondent, this album slowly oozes its voice from its pores, dropping pools of dark, liquidy hopelessness into a deep well of bottomless imagination. With incomplete thoughts and scattered pieces of wisdom, Sam Lowry weaves a shadowy but stirring album for those who are in no hurry to understand.

SPLENDID E-ZINE If every singer-songwriter had this much power behind such an economy of words, we'd probably all have a higher consciousness by now. Maybe that's what Sam Lowry's nudging us toward, one breathy, retributive melody at a time.

THE PIN-UP Lowry works his songs like small garden snakes, getting the lot primed and ready to strike the hand of another who thinks he can easily charm them. All notions of rustic, or alt.country or what-have-you seems kind of moot by now, and even more when Lowry lowers voice to that parched sing-song vocal.

CITYBEAT With a deflated, Leonard Cohen-like grumble and an unexpected musical backdrop that blends together traditional acoustic instruments like banjo, guitar and fiddle with warm yet tricky drum loops and vintage-sounding keyboards, Lowry has concocted an honest, dark and surprisingly melodic exercise in aural subtlety that works to maximum effect. His textural, slanted and poetic take on Roots music gives new meaning to the phrase "American Gothic."

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!!! End Code To Apply Top Banner !!! ..

Member Since:

July 17, 2004

Members:

Past, present and future members of my ever changing backing band the Circumstance include:
Jonathan Richardson (Early Day Miners)
Sarah Quick
Frank Hall
Sophia Travis
Aaron Distler (Duraluxe)
Kit Malone.com
Sarah Balliet (Murder by Death)
Sam Crawford (Three on the Tree, The Decanters)
Nathaniel Seer
Erika Olifant (Air Tight Garage)
Ben Bussel (Mt. Gigantic, Mustache).
Rob Ross (Sump Pumps)
Jeff Ratner (Langhorne SLim)
Casey Lee (Fake Problems)
Anne Lillis(Jessica Lea Mayfield's Band)
Michael Grady
Ann DeVilbiss

Influences:

Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, the The, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello

Sounds Like:

Tom Waits, (smog), Sparklehorse, Leonard Cohen

Record Label:

www.higherstep.com

Label Type:

Indie

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