The Low Anthem
Langdon Street Café
Montpelier, Vermont
April 13, 2009 - Monday

Source: Sennheiser 441 > UA-5 > Korg MR-1 DFF [1 bit / 2.8 Mhz ]
Rate Conversion: AudioGate to WAV [24/96]
Mastering in WaveLab with iZotope Ozone 4 > 
Dithered to [16/44.1] > CD WAVE > TLH > Flac 
Recorded and Mastered By Bill Koucky

Ben Knox Miller
Jeff Prystowsky
Jocie Adams

Disc 1	45:55
1st Set:

1.	Intro
2.	Cage The Songbird
3.	The Ballad Of The Broken Bones
4.	Charlie Darwin
5.	Sally Where’d You Get Your Liquor From
6.	Don’t Let Nobody Turn You ‘Round
7.	This God Damn House
8.	Take Me Slow
9.	Ticket Taker
10.	Home I’ll Never Be

Disc 2	43:02
2nd Set:

1.	Tuning
2.	To The Ghosts That Write History Books
3.	My Love, Where Is She
4.	Senorita
5.	The Blind Walks The Blind (New Song, No Title)
6.	Bird On A Wire
7.	Cigarettes and Whiskey
Encores:
8.	Cheatin’
9.	Evangeline

http://www.lowanthem.com/home.html


Revies from: NEW YORK TIMES, MOJO, BBC, PASTE, ROLLING STONE

5 days, 6 shows, and one broken down mini-van later, SXSW is OVER! 
Here are some nice words about the band's gigs...

"Most musicians here were less concerned with the interests of the music 
business than they were with reaching listeners. They might be quiet, 
like the Low Anthem, a Rhode Island trio that played somber songs 
pondering fate and eternity...They saw their future not in stadium 
tours or rock-star indulgences, but in the pragmatic steps of setting 
up another tour or doing another studio session."
New York Times

"Friday turned into my night of hymns and incantations. 
At the Central Presbyterian Church, the Low Anthem, from Providence, R.I., 
harmonized on slow, sustained songs - often waltzes - using instruments 
like harmonium, clarinet, some kind of small euphonium and a set of 
metal discs played with a bow for eerie high tones, perfect accompaniment 
for lines like 'Oh, my God, the water's all around.' Most of the music 
was stately and mournful, with lyrics contemplating faith, loss, destruction 
and self-destruction in visionary imagery: 'They say the sky's the limit/The sky's 
about to fall.' Every so often, making the quiet songs sound even quieter, 
the Low Anthem played something electric, bluesy and distorted, 
but equally serene in its desolation." 
New York Times

"One thing becomes abundantly clear during their set: The Low Anthem are truly 
startling songwriters and instrumentalists. Theirs is a gloriously romantic 
vision of America that sits somewhere between Dylan and Waits."
Mojo

"The night ends with The Low Anthem playing in the church. A perfect venue for a 
stunning band, one moment extracting every last drop of juice from a fragile 
vocal harmony, the next exploding into a howlin' raw blues number, their 
single Charlie Darwin weaved its magic into the hearts of everyone present. 
Expect much flowerier words of praise thrown on this band in the future; 
they deserve everything said about them. 
Oh, and whoopering and hollering in a church is a lot of fun."
BBC Radio 1

"The Low Anthem's harmonica-and-string-flavored ballads are as haunting as 
they are gorgeous. This group of Providence up-and-comers knows how to 
break your heart and make you smile at the same time." 
Paste

Now that the van's fixed, just 2,000 miles till home.

"Charles Darwin", the lead track on the Low Anthem's new album is 
absolutely gorgeous. It has an angelic quality, like the Whiles' 
"Lonesome Reply" or the Fleet Foxes' "White Winter Hymnal". 
After the beautiful quiet folk of "To Ohio", the band picks 
up the tempo and switches to a couple of backwoods sing-alongs 
with scratchy, gargled-sand vocals and roughly strummed guitar on 
"Horizon Is A Beltway" and "Home I'll Never Be". Then it's mostly 
back the quiet lullabies. On "Cage The Songbird" Ben Knox Miller's 
voice sounds a little like Phil Collins, which in this case isn't 
a bad thing. This album might have benefited from the division 
provided by the sides of an LP, but regardless of tone, all the 
songs mentioned are great.

Who: The Low Anthem, a trio of neo-hippie rockers who, after scoring a slot 
at Bonnaroo and a gig opening for Ray LaMontagne, have become one of the 
hottest unsigned bands on the East Coast. With A&R reps flocking to their 
sold out shows, frontman Ben Knox Miller says, “We can make a living now. 
Not a luxurious living, but a living.”
Sounds Like: Backed by Miller’s Springsteen-esque rasp 
and multi-instrumentalists Jocie Adams and Jeff Prystowsky, 
the Low Anthem craft homemade, warm-hearted Americana populated by train 
workers and road trippers on their second album, Oh My God, Charles Darwin. 
Recorded on Block Island, Rhode Island, the group adds flourishes of instruments 
like pump organ, zither and Tibetan singing bowls.

Vital Stats:
• The trio met at Brown University; Miller and Prystowsky played intramural 
baseball together and then DJ’d the graveyard shift at a radio station before 
starting the Low Anthem as a duo. The band’s biggest fan was Adams, who was 
recruited to join after Miller learned she could play anything from trumpet to viola.
• Adams is a classical music-loving nerd who once worked as a researcher at NASA 
(she studied photochemistry). “I guess you could say I undiscovered [the hydrocarbon] 
allene in Titan’s atmosphere,” Adams says. Miller jokes, “Can you imagine what 
it’s like getting her to rock & roll?”
• “Everything we listen to is really old: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Gustav Mahler,” 
Miller says of the band’s influences. “We’re not into the next big thing.”
Hear It Now: Oh My God, Charles Darwin is available now in stores and digital 
music services. In our Breaking video above, watch Low Anthem perform their song 
“To the Ghosts That Write History Books.” 

Rolling Stone
