Stephen Lowell's musical influences span an impressive array of genre's and geographies. As a child he stayed up way past bedtime with a radio listening to Gene Shay spin folk and bluegrass out of Philadelphia. He continued his studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he learned far more about the soul of music outside of the classroom; listening in the clubs and playing on the streets. His later travels across Africa and Indonesia further contributed to his unique musical perspective. All these influences seep into Lowell's unique blend of folk, bluegrass, blues and roots music.

Flight Lessons

Flight Lessons is whatever it wants to be.  A project of David Sparrow of Los Angeles based rock band Burning Jet Black, the idea was created as an outlet for songwriting and collaboration.
Being a part of a band, there always tends to be material that just doesn’t “fit,” so in that spirit, these songs are open for interpretation by whoever happens to be willing to add something new to the bare bone structures.
If it turns into a folk song, so be it.  If it turns into a balls to the wall rock tune, so be it.  The existing material is all very sparse with the full intention of reinventing it in a live situation.

The live version of Flight Lessons was only recently born in April of 2013 with its first inception being David Sparrow accompanied by Ben Levy of local band, The Vintage Tuesday.  
Although it’s not a foreign concept of joining violin and guitar, the camaraderie of Levy and Sparrow created a new vibe to the existing music.  Not exactly rock n’ roll, but not sad bastard songwriter territory either.

As the project is only just taking off (pun intended) there’s not much else to say, except Sparrow is excited to see where it goes.


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