Lowlands seattle band

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Cities like Port Angeles were hammered by lowland snow overnight Tuesday , where more than 20 inches fell by Wednesday morning. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph and gusts between 55 and 60 mph were expected. You can track the latest impacts via the Puget Sound Energy outage map.

NWS meteorologists said there is the possibility for periods of snow near the hilltops in some Puget Sound cities, depending on how low temperatures dip overnight Wednesday. Low temperatures were forecast to be right at the margins for freezing. Thursday looks slightly warmer, with afternoon highs approaching the 40s in many areas.

Lucas Combos , Patch Staff. The National Weather Service said a band of precipitation that brought snowflakes to Seattle Wednesday afternoon was not expected to bring notable accumulations. Find out what's happening in Seattle with free, real-time updates from Patch.

Let's go! Snow levels were generally expected to rise between and 1, feet by Wednesday night. It is the soon to be sophomore release from Lowlands. As has always been the case, the core value of Lowlands' music is telling a story through every instrument. With every note and beat of the drum a bright and vivid picture is painted.

It is in this space where you will find Lowlands true quality and outstanding musicianship. Boasting a style and voice that is unique to the Seattle music community, Lowlands' powerful and nuanced sound is reminiscent of indie rock bands like The Decemberists and Wilco.

The song is a bit of a mystery. It has often been found in tradition in Britain and USA but always as a sailor shanty, usually sung while working at the pumps. Two distinct sets of words accompany the tune: one text tells the present story of the dead lover who returns; the other text concerns the work and pay of cotton-lumbers in the port of Mobile, Alabama.

Deceived by the latter version, some specialists declare it to be a Negro song. More likely, it's a fragment of an Anglo-Scots ballad, full form forgotten, that lived on among British seamen who passed it on to longshoremen in the Gulf ports. Anne Briggs sings Lowlands not as a shanty but as a ballad, in what is probably something like its original form. This album was reissued on CD in by Greentrax. Isambarde sang Lowlands Away on their album Brunel's Kingdom.

She noted:. This 17 th century song describes the feeling of desolation felt by a woman who knows that her true love is dead—drowned in the Lowlands of Holland. He noted:. Folk songs have always inspired many versions and many interpretations… some dream of drowned lovers, others dream of an end to racial injustice.