Lowdown & lonesome
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Kendell Marvel: The Relix Session
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Songwriter Kendell Marvel finds new life in a 'Lowdown and Lonesome' world
-The Daily Times
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-Wide Open Country
Yes, Kendell Marvel Loves That Song, Too
-CMT.COM
Kendell Marvel: Honky Tonk Headliner Aims for the Big Time
-FOX NEWS RADIO
World Cafe Nashville: 20 Indie Discoveries From 2017
-NPR MUSIC
Watch Kendell Marvel Perform Live at Paste Studio
-Paste Magazine
8 Country and Americana Albums You May Have Missed in 2017
-Wide Open Country
Hear Kendell Marvel, Chris Shiflett Talk Chris Stapleton, Bro Country
-ROLLING STONE
Kendell Marvel Reflects on His Career Following the Release of 'Lowdown & Lonesome'
-BILLBOARD
A country singer with Marvel-ous songs, voice and beard
-ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
KENDELL MARVEL GETS 'LOWDOWN & LONESOME' ON FIRST SOLO ALBUM
-THE BOOT
Kendell Marvel Calls His Own Shots on Debut Solo Record ‘Lowdown & Lonesome’
-Wide Open Country
One Country: Exclusive First Listen of Kendell Marvel's "Tryin' Not To Love You"
-One Country
The Boot: Kendell Marvel's 'Hurtin' Gets Hard' Exclusive Premiere
-The Boot
WE HATE POP COUNTRY CALL'S KENDELL MARVEL'S 'LOWDOWN & LONESOME' "REAL MUSIC"
-WE HATE POP COUNTRY
5 New Songs We’re Listening to This Week
-Wide Open Country
See Hit Songwriter Kendell Marvel's Gritty 'Lowdown & Lonesome' Video
-Rolling Stone Country
Cody Jinks & Ashley McBryde among the surprise guests at Kendell Marvel's Honky Tonk Experience.
-Rolling Stone Country
KENDELL MARVEL TALKS CHRIS STAPLETON, RADIO REJECTION
-TENNESSEAN
With single release, it's finally happening for Southern Illinois native Kendell Marvel.
-The Southern Illinoisan
Artist to Watch: Kendell Marvel, a Hit Songwriter Poised for Solo Success
-Wide Open Country
the art of the nashville artist residency
-cmt.com
Kendell marvel-ous honky tonk experience
-musicrow.com
Hear Chris Stapleton's single "Either Way" co-written with Kendell Marvel
Thompsonville Native Kendell Marvel could be country's next big thing.
-The Southern Illinoisan
Kendell Marvel's Honky-Tonk Experience is quietly becoming the hottest ticket in Nashville, attracting guests like Angaleena Presley, Brothers Osborne, and Jon Pardi to sit in with the songwriter.
-Rolling Stone Country
Known for writing honky tonk floor-burners, uncompromising contemporary country hits, and instant-classic personal testaments, Kendell Marvel is making his solo debut with "Lowdown & Lonesome".
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Already an award-winning songwriter, having written hits for Chris Stapleton, George Strait, Jamey Johnson and Jake Owen, Kendell Marvel makes his solo debut with Lowdown & Lonesome, a concept album that blends his musical down home country and rock & roll roots.
Having written 9 out of 10 tracks on the album, Marvel flexes his writing chops and invites listeners on the familiar journey of heartbreak, vices and all points in between. “Gypsy Woman” paints the picture of a love that’s not chasing back while on the title track "Lowdown & Lonesome” Marvel sings about hitting rock bottom and drinking about it. Lowdown & Lonesome is reminiscent of classical country greats Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. combined with the southern rock edge of the Allman Brothers and ZZ Top. “I wrote the song “Lowdown & Lonesome” with Keith Gattis and Randy Houser a few years back and we based the whole album around that track. The songs are real, they’re gritty- a combination of hurt-like-hell heartache and rowdy rebellion.”
Born and raised in Southern Illinois, Marvel began playing his first gigs at 10 years old. "My dad would take me out to bars, and I'd play old country covers," he remembers. "Dad would get free beer, and I'd get free pickled eggs or beef jerky. I was hooked."
The gigs continued as Marvel grew older. In 1998, he left his home in Illinois, moved to Nashville and began writing songs. During his first day in Music City, Marvel penned Gary Allan's first Top 5 hit, "Right Where I Need To Be.” Other hits followed, but Marvel never lost sight of the solo career he'd kicked off back in the Midwest. As his reputation as a songwriter grew, he continued hitting the highway on a yearly basis, crisscrossing the country —Alaska to Florida to the Virgin Islands — on his own solo tours.
Produced by Keith Gattis, Lowdown & Lonesome finds Marvel heading up an all-star band of sidemen and session players, including guitarist Audley Freed, drummer Fred Eltringham and harmonica icon Mickey Raphael. While the album is filled with musical heavyweights, the true stars are the songs themselves. "I'm done chasing down what everybody else is doing," he says. "I did that for years, and this, this is something different.”
