"Not Down This Low" is the closing track of Jeff Cowell's recently re-issued album, Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold. Little information about Cowell is out there, but the album was originally recorded in 1975 and is filled with isolated, loner epics from the outlaw brand of country music. Cowell never enjoyed the notoriety of contemporaries like Townes Van Zandt, but Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold contains the same sad, twangy folk sounds.
"Not Down This Low" is a depressing ode in which Cowell bemoans the awful state he's found himself in, including hoping the family he's left behind in Northern Michigan thinks "that I'm dead, but not down this low."
Spark up a Lucky Strike, let a tear loose, and soak in the sadness of "Not Down This Low." <EC>
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