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Last we’d interviewed Balmorhea fountainhead RG Lowe, he’d given us a heads-up on the band he was touring with. And rightly so. But we’ll get to that in a second. Nellie Fitzgerald (whose FaceBook page can be found here) was the second in O’Brien’s lineup in Boston. She followed a mostly covers section by Dan Barracuda (who was pretty good! Though we didn’t really dig his original, “Something Crazy”). Fitzgerald herself, right here: … has a voice. A good voice. We liked the bit of funkiness that her band opened with, and greatly appreciated not only her voice, but her stage presence. She’s certainly aRead More →

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Mon. 6-26-17. O’Brien’s, Boston, MA. Doors @ 8p. $10. Further dates starting 6-21-17 on his site.   Robert Griffin Lowe has a ten-year career with instrumental band Balmorhea. But the 32-year-old Austin-based musician decided to spend four years of his musical life listening to pop records and recording one. We talk about Stevie Wonder, Lowe’s own Slow Time, and politics influencing music.     M Keefer: You started playing music at seven years old. I remember being around nine or ten, going “Man, do I really have to practice today?” RG Lowe: For me, too, it was definitely like that. It was like a chore atRead More →