Loading details…
Artist
Sam Lowry
12+ albums
strange life
about
Sam Lowry is an artist that is perhaps best described as "dark americana". Lowry and his ever-changing ensemble of talented back up (members of Murder by Death, Early Day Miners, and Duraluxe among others) have released four albums out on Higher Step Records, including the latest release 'Songs of My Enemy". Overall Sam Lowry's work is a brutal and self-aware and honest look at a mans mind as he sinks into a post-divorce depression, deals with abandonement through the breaking of social patterns, and always displays the sort of hope for something better that has been a staple of the acoustic driven genre since it's conception. A deep, casual, resonance delivers his straight forward lyrics in a plain and genuine voice that reflects the music genre of middle-class middle-america, sick and tired of being in the middle. Reviews: 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 w
