Check out J.D. McPherson's score for the Ethan Hawke series The Lowdown following a trailer and interview clips.
Here's the scoop from J.D. McPherson...
My score for Season 1 of The Lowdown on FX Networks is out today!
Harjo / Noir / Tulsa are three nouns collected together which might cause anyone’s wig to flip in general, but mine in particular. When Sterlin Harjo invited me to produce the music for a Noir set in my birthplace of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I could not have been more thrilled. Tulsa is a truly unusual city made up of Art Deco architectural masterpieces casting long shadows over storied honky tonks, cars zooming around with tribal license plates, coney shops, and a rich, living history of jazz, funk, blues, country, western swing, and art rock. There’s a diverse cast of REAL characters everywhere you look. I knew that with Sterlin at the helm, the show would be an earnest love letter to Tvlse.
Thank you x1,000,000 to Sterlin for his trust and support, the kind folks at FX Networks and thank you to the incredible post production team ESPECIALLY my right hand, teacher, and runnin’ buddy during this experience, Emily Kwong, Music Editor Emily Kwong 🌞
Listen while you make your third cup of joe!
And…. If you haven’t watched The Lowdown yet…. GET AFTER IT, HOSS!
Celebrating singer/songwriter Jim White's birthday with a few songs from his "Precious Bane" album recorded with Trey Blake.
About Precious Bane...
It started in London with a shy fan offering Americana outsider Jim White a gift—an obscure 19th Century novel called Precious Bane. Over the years they kept up a correspondence, with White becoming increasingly intrigued by this shy, impoverished woman who led a fairly desperate hand to mouth existence in the south of England.
That woman is Trey Blake, a neurodivergent artist living in obscurity in Brighton, UK. Growing up with undiagnosed autism, she managed her condition and the resultant inability to function in the mainstream world through various addictions. Along the way she sought to create art (songs, prose & photography) that encompassed both light and dark, drawing on her experiences of brokenness and loss on one hand and transcendent beauty and oneness on the other.
The two have paired up to deliver Precious Bane, a haunting effort that finds them trading songs from across the ocean---her parts being recorded by Joe Watson of Stereolab, whom Trey randomly met in a Brighton coffee shop. Like Jim, Joe was instantly struck by this exotic outsider. The resulting collaboration is an enigmatic sonic journey that transports the listener to a mythic, darkly lyrical soundscape.
Jim White and Joe Watson believe in Trey Blake. Hopefully you will too. She deserves an audience, a high-minded one in fact, one hungry for subtle revelation, one capable of appreciating the beauty of treasures unearthed in ragged, unlikely places; among the weeds, deep in the shadows of being, on the outermost fringes of existence. That’s Trey’s zone.
Get a copy of Precious Bane via Bandcamp right here. Check out a couple of clips – including Jim White's video for "Tumbleweed Time" – following the tracklisting and album credits below.
Precious Bane – Trey Blake & Jim White
1. Ghost Song 6:56
2. Rushing In Waves 5:10
3. The Long Road Home 6:51
4. One Last Love Song 6:23
5. Down To The River We Go 5:05
6. His Lady 5:19
7. Tumbleweed Time 6:44
8. Midnight Blue 7:49
9. My Time With The Angels 5:06
10. Ballad Of The Gunfighters 5:16
Credits:
TREY BLAKE: vocals, guitar; JIM WHITE: guitar, banjo, keys, marimba, percussion, woodwinds, harmonica, melodica, vocals, backing vocals; ROBERT EXON: backing vocals, rhythm guitar and guitar arrangements on His Lady, One Last Love Song, Rushing in Waves; MARLON PATTON: drums & bass; DAVID VAN WYKE: cello; ANDREA DEMARCUS: bowed bass; CLIVE BARNES: guitar; STEVE MAPLES: additional bass; NICOLAS ROMBOUTS: additional bass; ALEX WRIGHT: backing vocals; ENGINEER: JOE WATSON (UK) JIM WHITE (US); MIX & MASTER: JOHN KEANE
The boffo new 2LP edition of The Low Road comes with a bonus album of rippin' Beasts live recordings circa 1991 & '92.
Here's the scoop...
Late in 1991, Beasts Of Bourbon unleashed their fourth album ‘The Low Road’.
Armed with a rejuvenated rhythm section relative to its predecessor (1990’s Black Milk) with Tony Pola and Brian Hooper on drums and bass guitar respectively, with this new lineup, the Australian rock supergroup enlisted producer Tony Cohen, an engineer best known for his exceptional production work with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party – at Metropolis Studios (Melbourne) in April 1991.
Among the album’s nefarious delights were the blistering Chase the Dragon’ (about heroin smuggling), a cover of AC/DC’s slow and insinuating `Ride On’ and the Hendrix-flavoured ‘Just Right’.
The album was supported by a tour with the inaugural Big Day Out alongside Nirvana and Violent Femmes alongside European dates where the band had earned a loyal fanbase.
Ian McFarlane in The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock & Pop described the album as ‘brimming with urgency, surrealism, atmosphere, myth, illusion and honesty, but above all, hard-nosed rock riffs’.
Now in 2026 to mark the 35th anniversary of the album, we’re proud to present the album in expanded form on vinyl 2LP 180-gram black vinyl.
The original 10-track album makes up the first LP, with the second LP consisting of seven live tracks recorded at the infamous Phoenician Club, Sydney through 1991 and 1992 alongside an epic live rendering of the Stones ‘Cocksucker Blues’ recorded at Theatre Fabrik, Munich in 1992.
The package is all housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with photography from Red Eye Records founder John Foy, Bleddyn Butcher and Mr Speedieflex.
The Beasts of Bourbon - Low Road - Available March 27th. Check out Tex Perkins site for more info Watch a few video clips from the album along with some footage of the Beasts tearing up the Phoenician Club back in 1991 and 1992.
