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Sam Lowry

dark americana

About Me

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Sam Lowry is an artist that is perhaps best described as "dark americana". With four albums out on Higher Step Records, including the brand new "Songs of My Enemy" (featuring members of Murder by Death, Early Day Miners and Duraluxe); Lowry is coming off a year of divorce driven drinking and quality song writing and is hitting the road once again. This past year found him on tour with Murder by Death, Appleseed Cast, Unwed Sailor, Lucero, Rocky Votolato and William Elliott Whitmore. Lowry is currently taking the summer off to write a new album, finish his first book (written, not read) and generally relax and enjoy his hometown and homeboys, homegirls and homedogs.Not only does Lowry talk about himself in the third person, but these people have talked about him in the third person as well. 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."

My Interests

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Member Since: 7/17/2004
Band Website: exilesuite.com
Band Members: Past, present and future members of my ever changing backing band the Circumstance include: Jonathan Richardson (Early Day Miners)Sarah QuickFrank HallSophia TravisAaron Distler (Duraluxe)Kit Malone.comSarah Balliet (Murder by Death)Sam Crawford (Three on the Tree, The Decanters)Nathaniel SeerErika Olifant (Air Tight Garage)Ben Bussel (Mt. Gigantic, Mustache).
Influences: Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, the The, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello
Sounds Like: Tom Waits, (smog), Sparklehorse, Leonard Cohen
Record Label: www.higherstep.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Song!

Check out my new song at www.higherstep.com where you can download it for free until June 7th.
Posted by Sam Lowry on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:43:00 PST

The Quarter-Year Update

Hello Citizens of MySpace,It's Sunday night here in lovely Bloomington, Indiana and my left eye is feeling the full frontal assault of spring allergies. It is not a good time. But I can't complain, ...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:51:00 PST

December Tour & Other News

Friendsters/Myspacers/Facebookers/etc...Greetings. It's Friday night and my belly is full of potato soup, Tom Waits is on the iTunes and I'm taking a few minutes to let you all know about the upcoming...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

New Song, "Julianne", Posted

Hola,I have a new song up for your listening pleasure. It's entitled "Julianne" and it's my side of the upcoming concept split 7" I'm doing with William Elliott Whitmore. It's a murder ballad, and t...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:13:00 PST

My Top 24 and What I'm Up to For a While

MySp Friends,Just a note for those of you who come by and notice I'm not playing any shows for a while and are wondering if I perhaps broke up with my self. I did not. As some of you know, unlike mo...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST

East Coast Dates

East coast friends,I'm driving through a snow storm to unleash a show storm on your states! Brave the arctic chill and come catch a show or two and we'll drink hot totis and make snowmen that look lik...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:32:00 PST

Last Blog of 2006

Hi,It's been a while since we've conversed electronically, but I hope you all have been busy and productive as opposed to in jail or a coma. I've been on the road with my day job as part of Murder by...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:41:00 PST

Gratitude and some small news

Just wanted to drop a quick note and thank everyone who came out and showed love on the Lucero, Rocky Votolato, William Elliott Whitmore, Sam Lowry tour. Sadly last night in Sacremento was my last ni...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST

Even more Lucero, Whitmore, Votolato dates.

I guess the powerball ticket in my wallet is probably not a winner as I've already won the rock lottery in the past few weeks. First I got to open the Murder by Death, Appleseed Cast, Unwed Sailor to...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:13:00 PST

Songs of My Enemy, Tour With My Friends part 2

Hello internet friends,Hope you all had a good weekend. Here's a couple of quick things foryou to file away in the ole noggin.-------------------------TONIGHT!My official hometown CD release show for...
Posted by Sam Lowry on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:05:00 PST