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The fellas in Low Red Land don’t always just rock, they have day jobs too, like cutting glass, bartending and smoking BBQ. We sat down with them and got the low-down on some band history.
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Stereopathic: Where does the name Low Red Land come from?
Low Red Land: It comes from a documentary about outlaw country music from the 1970’s, it’s called “Heartworn Highways” and there’s an obscure country artist, called Larry Jon Wilson and he has a song called Ohoopee River Bottomland and the first line of the song is “this low red land has turned to sand”.
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They all met at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. Mark and Ben accompanied poetry readings playing percussion and bass. They met Neil when he began hanging out in Mark’s dorm room and they started playing in bands together. After school, they moved to Boston. When their band, Great American, broke up they moved to San Francisco to start something new and honest.
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Stereopathic: What kind of music do you listen to now?
Low Red Land: I think one of the important things is we’re all open to different kinds of music, and there’s something to be said for every kind of music. If people are doing it honestly, there’s good music in every scene.
Stereopathic: What’s it like touring behind Dog’s Hymns?
Low Red Land: We toured so much after putting out our first record, that record was great but it was an artifact from a very specific time period. And I think we were still finding ourselves as a band, learning what we sounded like, all these different things. On Dog’s Hymns we had time to sort of conceptualize it and we recorded it once, the recording didn’t work well, then we toured. Then after that tour we played the songs so much better than we had and we were finally able to have something very specific to that time and us as a band.
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The day before they started their tour, they discovered that the gas tank and some other essentials had been stolen out from under their van. Despite that initial setback, the tour of the Inland Northwest is well underway and they will be playing in Moscow on Wednesday, April 1st. They will be playing an acoustic show at 5:00pm at One World Café. At 8:00pm, they’ll cross the street to plug it in at the Nuart and get ready to melt faces with their full-on electric set. Be there.
Nate is a land and music surveyor. He lives in Moscow with his wife and two children. He is not from Moscow, but he likes it here and wants there to be more music of the live variety.
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[...] . . . but you’re not going to hear it. That’s because you’ll be enjoying the sounds of Low Red Land. They’ll be spreading Rockandroll Dust all over the Nuart Theater and making it rock real hard. The Rockandroll Dust sounds problematic, but it’s entirely sonic and therefore less-mess. Doors open at 8 PM, $5 gets you in. Watch a video of these fellas after the jump, and check out NH Wolff’s interview with them here. [...]