Low Water is a rock band based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally started in San Francisco, CA, the band relocated to the
Williamsburg
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Places
*Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum and private foundation in Virginia
*Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood in New York City
*Williamsburg, former name of Kernville (former town), California
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section of Brooklyn. The band's most recent cd is called, ''The Taste You Know and Enjoy''. The songs "Voodoo Taxi", "She Shined Down" and "House In The City", appear in several episodes of PBS's documentary show
Roadtrip Nation
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History
Movement
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. The band consists of Johnny Leitera (Guitar/Vocals) D. Rubin (Guitar/Vocals) Turner Stough (Bass) and Joe Burch (drums). Johnny Leitera also plays with the Brooklyn band
Tuff Sunshine
Tuff Sunshine is an American rock band based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. The band is led by Johnny Leitera, who works with several backing musicians who join him onstage and on tour as well as in the studio. They include notable ...
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The band created a mobile photobooth in order to produce a video for the song "Sister, Leave Me" from their second CD entitled "Who Said That Life Is Over?". The band's fourth CD, "The Taste You Know and Enjoy" was released on January 15, 2011, and has a seven-syllable title like the previous three CDs. The third track on the CD, "I Amplify", contains a
Shepard tone
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at 1:00, and again at 2:07. The band discuses it in an interview with American Songwriter. The eighth track, "Centralia" is named after a ghost town in Pennsylvania which is the site of an underground mine fire. The song is a musical palindrome.
Former
TechTV
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personalities
Morgan Webb
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Catherine Schwartz
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Early years
Schwartz earned degrees in Broad ...
Chi-Lan Lieu
Chi-Lan Lieu is a Chinese-American author and television presenter. Since September 2012 she has hosted the HGTV series ''Living Abroad''.''Strange New Element'' In addition to appearing in the video, Morgan, Chi-Lan and Laura are featured in the artwork of the band's first album, ''Hard Words In A Speakeasy''.
In 2010 Leitera was
American Songwriter
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History
The ''American Songwri ...
Magazine's "Writer of the Week" while with Low Water.
Discography
Albums
* ''Hard Words In A Speakeasy'' (Yinz Playin' Music?, 2004)
* ''Who Said The Life Is Over?'' (Yinz Playin' Music?, 2006)
* ''Twisting The Neck Of The Swan'' (Yinz Playin' Music?, 2009)
* ''The Taste You Know and Enjoy'' (Yinz Playin' Music?, 2011)