Low Society

High Time reviewed in Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine

2011-12-22T09:57:00.000-08:00

From the Dec 2011/Jan 2012 issue of Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine:

Low Society is a revved up blend of blues, rockabilly, country and punk rock complete with babes, tattoos and bad attitudes. This slice of New York City life features the bodacious Miss Mandy Lemons as their resident vocal slinger and Mr. Sturgis Nikides of the blazing fingers on all guitars, dobro and banjo. Filling out the Society are C.P. Roth, Rowdy Bodine, and Charlie Walker working a swing shift on bass and drums. These hipsters have taken southern country blues and super-charged it to a white-hot intensity.

The North Mississippi blues of "Given Up On Love" has a slashing slide drive and Mandy has an intense quiver to her voice. A sparkling slide dobro and tambourine inhabit the "Dead Mans Shoes" as Lemons runs through a host of deadly allegories. Slipping in a few Janis Joplin styled ballads, "Three Time Loser" has a shimmering Leslie guitar while "Texas Goodnight" has a hauntingly moody slide; Lemons belts out some deep soulful wails on both. Going down home with a slide dobro Lemons gives a wild-eyed rant on "Crazy Love". "Black Pelican" has a grinding deep slide backing and snarling growl that cascades to an echoing finish. The Society concludes with Miss Mandy's raving and a ripping slide infused version of Lazy Lester's "Sugar Coated Love", bringing a whole new feel to that gentle tune.

The Low Society's "High Time" does exactly what their name and title implies injecting high intensity to this low down blues.
Roger & Margaret White

Also of note, our 'Dead Mans Shoes' is on the Big City Rhythm & Blues CD Sampler. The song is in the running for "Coolest Blues Song in the World 2012" and you can cast your vote for us at http://www.bigcitybluesmag.com/Sampler-rating-11-2.html

2011-12-06T12:02:00.000-08:00

Competition was FIERCE for this week's BLUES TOP FIVE chart! This week literally came down to a single vote from over a thousand in two of the top five positions. Bobby Messano's "That's Why I Don't Sing the Blues" is still hanging in there at #1, followed closely by The Mojo Roots "Thirteen Shades of Blue" in the #2 slot. Low Society's "High Time" has moved up another digit to the #3 position. Please keep up the daily voting and help us score the #1 slot!!
http://www.americanbluesscene.com/top-blues-chart-albums.php#LowSociety

American Blues Scene Top Album Chart

2011-11-22T11:32:00.000-08:00

Please click the link below and vote to place Low Society's High Time album into the American Blues Scene's Top 5 Blues albums chart!http://www.americanbluesscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Low-Society-High-Time-300x300.jpg

Low Society: Buy High Time CD

2011-11-11T10:21:00.000-08:00

Low Society: Buy High Time CD: You can now order your High Time CD's directly from us! Cut out the middleman...satisfaction guaranteed!!

Bman's Blues Report: Low Society Performance Update

2011-10-26T12:18:00.000-07:00

Bman's Blues Report: Low Society Performance Update: Talking with Sturgis Nikides of Low Society. Here's what he had to say: We are very busy little beavers here in the LS camp. We've been ke...

Low Society on PT's Roadhouse

2011-10-15T10:19:00.000-07:00

http://ptsroadhouse.com/show-50-limousines-hot-new-stuff-drivers/

AMERICAN BLUES BLOG.COM: LOW SOCIETY - SCREAMING BLUES - Mike Packer correspondent

2011-09-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

AMERICAN BLUES BLOG.COM: LOW SOCIETY - SCREAMING BLUES - Mike Packer correspondent

Gary Graingers Blues Show 124 playlist & stream

2011-09-15T12:00:00.000-07:00

Thumbrella - Words To A Void: Blues Show 124 playlist & stream:
This is the pre-recorded show that would have been broadcast on BishopFM on Sunday 11th Sept, if I'd been able to master the technology!
It was broadcast, though, on Kansas City Online Radio on monday at midnight CST, and will be repeated twice more this week

Samantha Grey - Memphis Groove

Candye Kane - Sweet Nothin's

Jon Allen - Lucky I Guess

LR Phoenix & Andres Roots - Comin' Home

Eric Clapton & Wynton Marsalis - Fourty-Four

Idle Hands - Weep And Moan

Cal Williams Jr. - Death Don't Have No Mercy

Sean Chambers - Full Moon On Main Street

Back Door - Linin' Track

Moreland & Arbuckle - Just A Dream

Rory Block-Mississippi Man

Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods - Going Down To The River

Sonny Terry - I Don't Worry

Randy Joe Galloway - Are You Still Loving Me

Fleetwood Mac w. Paul Butterfield - I Loved Another Woman

Johnny Mars - Mellow Down Easy

Low Society - Dead Mans Shoes

Cal Williams Jr. - Brownsville

Bowden & Williamson - Be Still

Trampled Under Foot - Evil Train

Henrik Freischlader -Come On My Love

Andres Roots - Spider Jam

Thumbrella - Words To A Void: Blues Show 123 playlist, stream

2011-09-07T09:23:00.000-07:00

Thumbrella - Words To A Void: Blues Show 123 playlist, stream
Show broadcast Sunday 4th Sept. 6-8pm UK time, 105.9BishopFM and BishopFM.com
Syndicated to Kansas City Online Radio Mondays, 6-8pm CST

David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Catfish Blues
Idle Hands - Mississippi
Ged McMahon - Much Too Cool For Me
Low Society - Long Black Limousine
David Bromberg - Digging in The Deep Blue Sea
The Bushwackers Live in The Studio - King Bee
Little Red Rooster
Don't Phone Frank
Buddy Whittington - Texas Trios
Tommy Allen Band - Read Me My Rights
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Talking The Blues
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Crawling Kingsnake
Ry Cooder - John Lee Hooker for President
John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillun
The Bushwackers Live in The Studio - Bushwacked
Who's Foolin' Who?
Mississippi Heat - I Got Some News Today
Hazmat Modine - So Glad
The Bushwackers Live in The Studio - Live It Up
Gonna Boogie
J.B. Lenoir - Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Joe Bonamassa - Lonesome Road Blues
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Well, Well
Little Toby Walker - Whipping Post

Buy High Time CD

2011-09-05T10:49:00.000-07:00

You can now order your High Time CD's directly from us! Cut out the middleman...satisfaction guaranteed!!

Thumbrella - Words To A Void: Blues Show 122 playlist & stream

2011-09-01T08:29:00.000-07:00

Thumbrella - Words To A Void: Blues Show 122 playlist & stream: Show broadcast on Sunday 28th August, 105.9BishopFM, 6-8pm Stevie Ray Vaughan - Honey Bee, Low Society - Black Pelican & Three Time Loser

First Review of High Time CD

2011-08-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

Low Society's High Time CD Reviewed By Gene Gregorits:

High Time is an audacious dirty blues record, the first by veteran New York slide specialist Sturgis Nikides under this particular name, which is a collaboration between he and singer Mandy Lemons. They are New York City's answer to Richard and Linda Thompson (not least because the duo actually married last winter); these songs are determinedly obsessed with classic blues themes, and they are stabbingly bitter works, indeed. Nikides returns more fearsome than ever before; a fucking beast on guitar (National Steel, of course). And then there’s Lemons, a force of nature in her own right. It’s the kind of murderous bitch-belting to shrink your dinky and give you blue balls all at once. When I say that the woman has a howl to peel paint, I mean it as a compliment. And the result of these two together…well, I can’t help smiling at a memory of a performance they gave in NY recently which I was left feeling fairly panicked by. I think that’s a natural response to an aberrant energy such as Low Society’s. If there’s anyone else doing something close to this right now, I haven’t heard it. Consummate professionalism is rare (perhaps because for most groups, it simply isn’t necessary), but to hear the savagery of these performers coupled with their purist agility, which at times borders on mythical, is something which needs no introduction or explanation. Just as rare is classicism, and here are those classic southern wasteland blues brought back defibrillated and speed-dosed, by two downtown demons who know their way around Hell better than the living are ever really supposed to. It’s all in the grooves, as they say, and you can’t help but hear it. Psychotic and masterful, this is a record and a group to pay serious attention to.

Low Society | High Time | CD Baby

2011-08-21T03:20:00.000-07:00

High Time for High Time - the new album is here!!!!

2011-08-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

Sharing Fan Comments

2011-08-10T13:17:00.000-07:00

This comment was posted by Steve Cottone on Facebook on Sunday 8/7/2011;

TONIGHT I SAW A FANTASTIC BAND WHICH WILL BUST OUT ALL OVER THE TRI STATE AREA SOON!!! THAT BAND IS... LOW SOCIETY!!!

THIS NO BULLSHIT 4 PIECE SET UP COMES WITH AN EVIL SLIDE GUITARIST, A SLITHERY BASSIST, A SPOT ON DRUMMER...AND SOME BITCH FROM OUTER SPACE WHO IS KICKIN ' THE SHIT OUT OF ME!.

The tunes are super well crafted with their foundation firmly imbedded in the delta blues/ rock tradition. Oddly enough this relatively new group sounds like a band who have been together many years.. the bassist is interlocked with the guitarists phrasing as is the drummer, and the singer just puts the icing on his already delicious cake.The singers vocals are so powerful and so full of spirit and exuberance , it cause one to be distracted buy just how truly great the rest of the band is... This guitarist is pure and honest... No stupid "Van Halen" or meatball corny tricks. He's got a Doctors degree in "Don't fuck with me" licks. The bassist is always there.. always .. the bottom , steady , tasty, married with the bass drum and that pocket which is created by him and the snare drum. Man that drummer is tribal! And this no bullshit female vocalist....IS THE BEST THAT THE TRI STATE AREA HAS TO OFFER RIGHT NOW!! NO SHIT! ..I'LL LAY MONEY ON IT!!! SHE IS THE REAL THANG!!!

SO FOR ALL YOU SCHMUCKS OUT THERE WHO LISTEN TO BAD COVER BANDS AND LOUSY NO TALENT BANDS... GO LISTEN TO A REAL BAND! ....GO LISTEN TO LOW SOCIETY!

New Video "Down Texas Way" @ Cha Cha's Coney Island

2011-08-10T13:12:00.000-07:00

CONEY ISLAND BLUES

2011-08-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE

New Videos from May 2011

2011-06-04T09:05:00.000-07:00

Low Society at Unsteady/Wood Beach Ball 5/29/11

2011-05-31T11:00:00.001-07:00

Sturgis Nikedes and Mandy Lemons of Low Society, a photo by Aonghais MacInnes on Flickr.

New Video "Three Time Loser "

2011-05-18T17:37:00.000-07:00

Hot off the editing machine, here's fresh video from last Saturdays performance at The Nursery Reunion at Bar None in NYC.
Produced by media mogul and our very own secret weapon James "Foxy" Fox.

SEE US THIS FRIDAY- MAY 6 IN NYC!!

2011-05-04T09:05:00.000-07:00

MORE INFO HERE
Fontana's Bar

105 Eldridge St
Low Society onstage at 11:00pm

Low Society at Lucky Cheng's March 25, 2011

2011-03-31T07:19:00.001-07:00

Low Society at Lucky Cheng's March 25, 2011, a set by alan.rand on Flickr.

LS Live @The Delancey Bar Fri. March 11

2011-03-08T12:49:00.000-08:00

Check out the event here:

http://www.facebook.com/STURGIS.1#!/event.php?eid=130501767020579

LOW SOCIETY PERFORMING AT 3 OF CUPS ON 2.27.11

2011-02-28T14:22:00.000-08:00

Low Society Plays The Blues Sunday Nite 2/27

2011-02-26T15:49:00.000-08:00

Join Low Society for an evening of unadulterated AUTHENTIC original BLUES
in the intimate downstairs lounge at Three Of Cups!!
Sunday Feb. 27
Doors open at 10PM, with music until the wee hours....
LOW SOCIETY ONLINE:
http://www.screaminblues.com/

New CD 'High Time' coming soon....

Three of Cups

83 1st Avenue

New York, NY