Daniel Lefkowitz was one of my finds of the year last year. I randomly bought his EP from Rough Trade not knowing anything about him other than it was a limited edition and my copy is 82 of just 325. I fell in love with the music as soon as I heard it.
He's originally from Virginia and is an ex-member of Low Anthem. His singing style is beautifully languid, kind of Bob Dylan (the comparisons are inevitable) voice with a Dr John style of delivery or Leadbelly even. The words roll in his mouth as he sings. Incredible.
Gravedigger Blues sounds like a blues standard that ruminates on God, the world and our place in it. A simple little hook that is infectious. Erinna to Sappho uses slide guitar to create a beautiful love and Siren Ghost is the inevitable melancholy number that transports you to images of sitting in the porch of a shack, rocking on a chair and lazily staring out onto the bayou. Death is a Warm Bath sounds like one of those old English folk songs that was taken over by the early pilgrims, given a loving home in the Appalachians and has remained there ever since, to be sung accompanied by guitar, banjo and a spitoon for the old boys to leave their chewed baccy.
It looks likely that he'll be back over to do the festival circuits and I definitely would love to catch up with him then to hear him live. His videos on Youtube look like he really enjoys his job. And so he should, he's very good at it.
Gravedigger Blues sounds like a blues standard that ruminates on God, the world and our place in it. A simple little hook that is infectious. Erinna to Sappho uses slide guitar to create a beautiful love and Siren Ghost is the inevitable melancholy number that transports you to images of sitting in the porch of a shack, rocking on a chair and lazily staring out onto the bayou. Death is a Warm Bath sounds like one of those old English folk songs that was taken over by the early pilgrims, given a loving home in the Appalachians and has remained there ever since, to be sung accompanied by guitar, banjo and a spitoon for the old boys to leave their chewed baccy.
It looks likely that he'll be back over to do the festival circuits and I definitely would love to catch up with him then to hear him live. His videos on Youtube look like he really enjoys his job. And so he should, he's very good at it.
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