The Low Anthem

Founders of The Low Anthem, Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky, met as DJs doing college radio. Jocie Adams (<a href="spotify:artist:5Nxn8lgy9oEXmurhiSn1v1" data-name="Arc Iris">Arc Iris</a> ) joined the band at an early stage. They recorded Low Anthem&#39;s first LP, <a href="spotify:album:3iPJqGycBrnhOUUOgfvFjE" data-name="What The Crow Brings">What The Crow Brings</a>, in their third floor apartment in Providence in 2007, using a single microphone for most tracks, and self-released it, dumpster diving for empty cereal boxes to fold into album sleeves, creating the silkscreens for the album art, and hand painting and serial-numbering 600 copies of the album.

At Newport Folk Festival in 2008, Miller and Prystowsky joined the recycling crew to get backstage and handed out copies of <a href="spotify:album:0c5QNW9WIf9fU665cHKYYV" data-name="Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Standard)">Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Standard)</a> to Jay Sweet (of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/03/the-low-anthem-2.html&quot; data-name=&quot;Paste Magazine&quot;&gt;Paste Magazine&lt;/a&gt;), the festival&#39;s director, hoping to catch a break. Paste featured the record in an upcoming issue. Sweet booked them for the next year&#39;s festival. The band signed with &lt;a href=&quot;spotify:user:nonesuchrecords&quot; data-name=&quot; Nonesuch Records&quot;&gt; Nonesuch Records&lt;/a&gt; and played the festival circuit the following summer, headlining shows in Europe.

The first band to take them out on tour was <a href="spotify:artist:5izyAiSDHfyMMQ7iRZaoer" data-name="Surprise Me Mr. Davis">Surprise Me Mr. Davis</a>, a side project of <a href="spotify:artist:4OyRutd80DZC22C4pl63l7" data-name="The Barr Brothers">The Barr Brothers</a> and later went on the road with <a href="spotify:artist:196lKsA13K3keVXMDFK66q" data-name="The Avett Brothers">The Avett Brothers</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7HeVXdOdMhLslVputGTZFQ" data-name="Timber Timbre">Timber Timbre</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4M5nCE77Qaxayuhp3fVn4V" data-name="Iron & Wine">Iron & Wine</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:60ht0hWRy1yjUDfNsLuHuP" data-name="Lucinda Williams">Lucinda Williams</a> and others. In 2012 they opened for <a href="spotify:artist:3eqjTLE0HfPfh78zjh6TqT" data-name="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a>, joining him on stage for the show&#39;s finale--a cover of <a href="spotify:artist:4rAgFKtlTr66ic18YZZyF1" data-name="Woody Guthrie">Woody Guthrie</a>&#39;s &quot;<a href="spotify:track:3ZjrfGcb3A2PMGA1vRNgSk" data-name="This Land is Your Land">This Land is Your Land</a>.&quot;

They built their own studio in Providence in an old vaudeville theater and continue making music and touring, having signed with &lt;a href=&quot;spotify:user:joyfulnoiserecordings&quot;&gt;JNR&lt;/a&gt; in 2018 to release their latest <a href="spotify:album:32MATdbLcCWvHF3i3CZoeA" data-name="The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea">The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea</a>.