Artist's albums
Plaint
1973 · album
Iron & Ice
1983 · album
Drifter's Paradise
2023 · album
Spirits
2023 · album
Arrival
2023 · album
The Great Abyss
2023 · album
Iron Mountain Balladeer
2023 · album
The Northern Iron Band
2023 · album
Hometown Jam
2022 · album
Millie Hill Slide
2020 · album
Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold
1975 · album
Professor Manifesto's Epiphany
2019 · album
Similar artists
Jim Ford
Artist
Elyse Weinberg
Artist
Dougie Poole
Artist
Michael Hurley
Artist
Jim Sullivan
Artist
Allan Wachs
Artist
Robert Lester Folsom
Artist
Tucker Zimmerman
Artist
Reverend Baron
Artist
Dick Stusso
Artist
Biography
A hard-living country-folk troubadour from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Jeff Cowell spent his musical youth (the 1970s and early '80s) in the bars, barns, and concert halls of Michigan and Northeastern Wisconsin, offering up a distinctly Northern rendering of the outlaw country sound, invoking names like Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, and David Allan Coe. A member of the regionally successful country-bluegrass/honky tonk bar band The Great Northern Iron Band, Cowell issued Lucky Strikes & Liquid Gold in 1975 -- an evocative, high and lonesome solo recording brimming with northern gothic-informed, youthful nihilism -- that remained firmly in the grip of the mitten state until the archivists at the Numero Group got their hands on it and reissued it in early 2015. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi