Lowery Mills – new name, new sound for Parham's rockingest band.

Apr 27, 2022

Jordan Lowery got his musical start as a “School of Rock'' kid from the now closed Hinchinbrooke Public School in Parham, before forming HD Supply and Reckless with Jay Mills, who he met when they were in high School in Sharbot Lake. Just as COVID was hitting, Mills and Lowery were ready to take some time to figure out where they wanted to go with their music.

“In a way COVID was good for Jay and me in terms of music. It gave us a chance to really look at our previous music and go over the videos, take some reactions, and really get to the meat and potatoes of our music right on the plate. It allowed us to clean up our sound and figure out what our music is all about,” said Jordan Lowery this week.

It also gave them a chance to make contacts with experienced producers and management to set up a kind of relaunch of the band.

And it is all starting to happen again over the next few weeks.

“Since it has been Jay and me together all along, we decided to change our name to Lowery Mills, based on our names, with a kind of reference to the old mill in Parham. It is also about being a band from Parham and Mountain Grove, having those blue collar roots. Before we might say we were from Kingston, because no one knew where Central Frontenac was, but Lowery Mills is about being from our own home town,” he said.

“To us, our music has always been rock‘n'roll, and people have called us a hillbilly punk band, or a rock with a country feel, whatever you want to call it.”

The band has been rehearsing at the home studio of the band's drummer Chris Malanson in Amherstview, and they have done the recording for a new EP in Toronto, with Maxwell Jacobs on bass.

On May 13, the first single and video from the EP is being released. The song, Strike it Like Thunder, features big guitar hooks, and a driving sound, and the shiny, high-definition new video based on it, features the band, and a narrative about a trucker who is on the road, and a woman who is back home.

It is being released on May 13, and the EP will come out a bit later. Lowery Mills will be playing dates in Kingston in May, at the Overtime Sports Bar on May 6 and 17, and at the Mansion on May 19. They are at the Red Dog in Peterborough on June 11, and will be featured at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, in June as well, to kick off the summer.

“It feels like, with live music starting up again, our new songs and a new take on some of our old material, along with the people we have met over the years in the music industry who we are working with, on production and management. We are ready to get out and have a great summer. We are looking forward to seeing where this all goes.”

Look for Jordan Lowery on music streaming platforms and at live shows, starting next month.