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Luke, thanks for (happy) talking to us. Low Shoulder is your great new album - what inspired a new release? Hey! Thanks! So, yeah, I had a tough couple years with the pretty chaotic dissolution of a 15 year marriage, the suicide of one of my best friends, crusading defence attorney Billy Sothern, and the death of my father. All that along with the chaos of a global pandemic and the pitfalls of being a blue dot in a red state. I've been working as a private investigator for the last six years. Mostly insurance fraud cases. Running surveillance in rural areas can get pretty dull. Songs just came to me. I even kept a ukulele in the car and strummed through new material; making me the least cool P.I. in the history of the industry.
Offbeat
Luke Spurr Allen has patience. It's a quality that might be mistaken in a city other than New Orleans for inertia, but in the somnambulant byways of his adopted city, where many greet the day only because they've been up all night, Allen's patience could well be viewed as a kind of ambition.
Antigravity
Luke Spurr Allen has been a staple of the New Orleans music scene for two decades now, best known for his work with Happy Talk—a band that gained much loyalty from fans for being one of the few roots-framed rock groups to gig in town in the early, dark days after Katrina. And yet, it's been seven years since he's put out an album.