Concert Review: The Lone Bellow Bring Nostalgia To The New Year At Bowery

Rowdy can be seen as a negative term, but, in truth, it is someone that is riotously fun. A person that does not cap a good time, but remains innocently childlike and swimming in the purity of joy. You don’t need drugs or drinks to get high on life or confront its hard lows. At Bowery Ballroom, The Lone Bellow showed all you need is good people and good music. 

The country-trio always give a raucous time, and one could tell by the eagerness of the crowd to sing-along, stomp, or follow with a harmony. People were READY to give their vocals loud and proud to back The Lone Bellow in singing tracks that can be, surprisingly, raw and nostalgic. Songs such as,”Tree to Grow” and “Bleeding Out” had the crowd swooning and singing to the many goodbyes life has made them say to love. It was both beautiful and somber because, for some reason, we forget how many times we have to let go of a love. Yet, to be fair, we never remember we will love again.

If believing in love is a seesaw then The Lone Bellow are musically riding it. From “May You Be Well” to “For What It’s Worth,” their songs captured how life is a ride worth taking, even through plateaus and bumps. So often, we forget the richness of a laugh or a lover’s embrace, but part of their music’s nostalgia is the realization that nothing compares to those moments: even if you have to let them go. Thus, you feel cozy and fuzzy as Zach Williams’ voice swirls like red wine in a pristine glass, Kanene Donehey Pipkins’s voice clouds like mist dancing through a sunny, blue sky, and Brian Elmquist’s voice wraps up both to feel like a blanket of yarned sentiments. In essence, together, their music embodies the instances when you let yourself look back on the good you have had without feeling sad it had to leave. 

It seems befitting that The Lone Bellow are playing Bowery Ballroom for The New Year. Most of us are looking back on 2018 trying to figure how we should emotionally embrace another year that had both likable and dislikable qualities. Yet, no matter what, you will LOVE their show. They are such a good time; fun, funny, and boisterously happy. Things we should all be in 2019. For More Information The Lone Bellow Click Here.