New Album: "Dirty Drinking Boots"

Lowheart’s seventh full studio album, “Dirty Drinking Boots”, is mainly a modern mainstream Country-Rock album, but one that also includes a few additional slight detours, which add to a great variety of sounds overall. Following on from the previous two stand-alone singles (“Piston Broke” and “Keep Coming Back”), Lowheart have produced a commercial country album, with a Country-Pop direction, that still contains several harder edged rocky moments, and also elements of rawer, more traditional country sounds such as bluegrass and folk-blues. Even Sun-era, pure fifties rock ‘n’ roll is represented (which of course had its roots in Hillbilly music), in the form of “Hell of a Week”. There are several ballads, ranging in mood from the positive to the melancholy. Lyrical themes include; fun drinking/party songs, songs of freedom and escape, rebellion, songs of entrapment and rigour, love songs, and relationship studies – at various times either narrative, universal, or personal in nature. As usual for Lowheart, in any style they tackle, guitars are prominent – in terms of both strong, melodic guitar riffs and rhythms and scintillating lead solo breaks.

The album kicks off in an upbeat fashion, with the defiant rocker “Hit The Track”, setting a tone of escape from the confines of the constraints of conventional life, a theme explored several times throughout. Several potential “radio songs” such as “She’s Better Than You”, “Hang Around”, and ”There She Goes”, present themselves, featuring catchy hooks and vibrant energy. The album contains a different version of “Keep Coming Back” to the duet featured on the previously released single. The one cover on the album, is a rocked-up version of the traditional hillbilly classic “Wreck of The Old 97”, of unknown authorship, first released in 1924 and later popularized by Johnny Cash amongst others. While the overall tone of the album is light-hearted and bouyant, there are also several darker moments, and some serious subject matter to balance the tongue-in-cheek humour on display at times. “Dirty Drinking Boots” is an album that should appeal to fans of contemporary Country-Pop, Rock, Roots/Americana, and pure Country.

New Single: Keep Coming Back

The new Lowheart single, their first release for 2023, is a duet with talented Victorian singer Tanya A, called "Keep Coming Back" - a Country-Pop-Rock ballad, sung from the perspective of a couple who can't quite get it together, but can't completely stay away from each other either. The song features sparsely arranged verses, highlighting the narrative lyrics and strong vocal performances, counterpointed by the big sound on the catchy choruses

Driven by the acoustic rhythm guitar, the track combines a variety of instruments, including piano, organ, mandolin, and harmonica, as well as Lowheart's trademark electric lead guitar - featured to great effect in the solo. The crisp production and melodic tune create a commercial, yet mature sound, that should have broad appeal. This stand-alone single precedes Lowheart's forthcoming Country Rock album "Dirty Drinking Boots", which will include a solo vocal version of the song.

New EP: "Roots Run Deep"

The new Lowheart release, "Roots Run Deep" - their first EP, is a six-track collection of traditional American folk songs, from well before the birth of rock 'n' roll, and which reflect the origins of both Country Music and The Blues. The songs on this EP are all around 100 years old (and in the case of "Wayfaring Stranger", around 200 years old!) - so old that the original songwriters cannot be identified, and as such the songs are all in the public domain.

These classic songs, which have all been covered numerous times over the years by a great many artists, have been given the Lowheart treatment on "Roots Run Deep", often with unique new arrangements that inject a different perspective and feel to the songs. The instrumentation, production, and musical style are in a similar vein to the sounds displayed on their most recent album "Catharsis", driven by the acoustic guitar, passionate vocals, and each featuring a memorable and dynamic lead guitar solo.

"Roots Run Deep" covers the majority of the pre-rock American musical genres (with the exception of jazz); blues, folk-blues, country, folk, country blues, hillbilly, bluegrass, gospel, and even a touch of reggae - the amalgam of which can best be described in modern terms as Roots/Americana or Alt-Country, although with the addition of Lowheart's ever-resent rock edge. Lyrical themes featured in these songs include those of spirituality, redemption, temptation, loneliness, punishment, isolation, sorrow, and loss, with classic settings such as trains, prisons, whore-houses, and biblical legends. "Roots Run Deep" presents a concise summary of the roots of American guitar music, with a fresh take on some well-worn and much-loved classics.