Lewis Lowrey is an independent recording artist and bassist currently 
 available in Louisville and beyond.  His recent work with Otis Peach on 
 LADYBUG BREATH may be heard on WFPK and is available at cdbaby.com or 
 directly from Howling Dogma at (502)297-0275. 
 
 His alter ego Bosco Stravinsky has prepared numerous improvisational pieces 
 incorporating synthesizers, guitars, sequencers, and various other 
 instruments as well as common household objects.  His  WHATEVEREST  is 
 available directly from Howling Dogma.

 Lewis has been active for longer than he cares to admit, a founding member 
 of early Nashville punks Children of Noise with brother Allen (at a historic 
 show that had the mayor of Nashville personally taking down the WAKE UP YOU 
 BORING FUCKERS flyers off telephone poles on the 6:00 news).  He fronted the 
 twisted techno-tribalist pioneers Suburban Baroque (played at Tewligan’s, 
 opened for the Replacements, bumped without notice when REM came to 
 Nashville for the first time) before wandering into The Land with brother 
 Allen and Mike Rosa.( Swamp, glam, psychedelic)   With Baby Mary he explored 
 early music, Child ballads, Celtic, and Middle Eastern music. Out in Arizona he wrote 
 played,and recorded, running an open mike at Coffee 
 Talk in Mesa with Todd Tranum.   Out of this grew Biscuithead, a three 
 headed monster including Barton Farley that allegedly broke up because of 
 mounting pressure on Todd to adopt the stage name Todd Dammit.  This left 
 Bosco and Barton, who performed as a duo and were often mistaken as a comedy 
 act when not backing up Sting aficionado Scott Worstell in The Blue Turtles 
 and sitting in with  Phoenix bar favorites The Tim Sealy Band. After an awkward canoe 
 ride in a fake lake  in Tempe, Arizona Lewis joined 
 up with Jim Miles to form Secret with Andrew Lockwood and Nick Pasco for a 
 few shows  of pop rock frenzy..  He continued with Mr. Miles’ Propeller12 in 
 a darker pop vein.  (the madness continues without him as evidenced at 
 www.heartgraves.com)
 
 During most of his 8 years in Arizona  he was bassist for Clusterfolk aka 
 The Dance Guppies aka I Wanted a Pony, (the political arm of Phoenix Friends 
 of Old Time Music) playing fiddle tunes ranging from Irish to Cajun to 
 French Canadian for contra dances and a variety of other events. Then came North 
 Carolina and Otis Peach, a reunion with Bryan Toney from the 
 first band he ever played in and a reunion of sorts with brother Allen 
 Lowrey of Lambchop.  The rest is not history, it is happening even as we 
 speak.

 Howling Dogma is pleased to announce the limited release of Ladybug Breath,          
 a collection of 14 new songs from Otis Peach. Started in the fall of 2001,          
 this disc was finally completed in August 2003. It allegedly contains songs 
 by Lewis Lowrey, Bryan Toney, and Steve Chase.

 Otis played the instruments and sang all the parts himself without any          
 bathroom breaks in September 2001 as CNN blared anger and despair out of the 
 TV in the next room. Sometimes, there was a faint odor of cat urine in the 
 booth and maybe Otis would have a beer and complain about his day job.          
 There was a guy living in a van in the front yard of the studio out there in 
 Foscoe, North Carolina, and he usually had a campfire.

 Otis planned to retire on the proceeds from this recording, and he is          
 standing by his mailbox waiting for royalty checks to arrive even though it 
 is well after 2 a.m. If you play this on the radio and say nice things          
 about it Otis might be able to eat supper for a change. Not that he is that 
 desperate, but he needs a little encouragement and some good mashed potatoes          
 now and then.

 There are ugly rumors that claim Otis Peach went to Nashville in August 2003 
 and met secretly with Allen Lowrey, of the internationally renowned 
 Lambchop and the ferociously rocking Trauma Team, to lay down some drums for 
 this originally drumless project. Brian Talbot and Robb Earls of Sound          
 Vortex are implicated in this fabrication. Otis says his only memory of          
 that long bus trip is his disappointment when he discovered that Barbara          
 Mandrell's underwear drawer was no longer on display on Music Row.

 Otis told me it was a big fat lie that most of the guitar and some bass and 
 keyboards were done by Bryan Toney, and he sang on about half the songs.  It 
 is also viciously insinuated that Lewis Lowrey sang and played bass, 
 guitar, and harmonica. Otis gets fighting mad at the suggestion that this          
 was a trio of guys who played in a band in high school and got together 25 
 years later on a whim. Talk of members of Biscuithead, Propeller12, The          
 Hardendorff Flyers, The Cherry Blossoms, Sarah Evans, The Land, and other          
 long gone bands being involved, some Lambchop connection, all this is just 
 what Otis hates to hear. Just like Jethro Tull, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Pink          
 Floyd, he's just one man out to make his mark.

 Otis might be in Louisville, or Nashville, or out in Boone, North Carolina,          
 or he might be out your way if you ask him real nice and wave a little          
 money under his nose.

  Bosco Stravinsky

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