Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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It’s been over five years since The Lowest Pair released our last studio record “The Perfect Plan” and we just celebrated our ten year musical anniversary! We, Palmer T. Lee and Kendl Winter, met on the banks of the Mississippi in Winona, MN in 2009 slinging banjos and chasing dreams in the form of songs. Our voices wove together so easily when we first sang that it felt like the universe put us around that campfire near that muddy river with a fateful wink.
When Palmer asked me about starting a double banjo duo in 2014 I thought he was wild and I was in! Over time the project has evolved and changed with us and with our unique blend of old-time roots and a modern take on songwriting. We’ve toured internationally and performed on hundreds of festival stages and thousands of theaters and listening rooms across the country. We promised ourselves no cage of genre, and have found our sound to freely frolic on the fringes of many. Now it’s 2025, over a decade, many seasons of love, of loss, long winters and bountiful springtimes later. We’ve been lucky and grateful to have The Lowest Pair to sink our teeth into, to share our songs, to share ourselves and our poetry and music through.
Our perspectives keep breaking loose and expanding as we grow and “Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be” is the latest collection of new songs and observations. It’s a blueprint of our hearts over the last five years. These songs were written between 2020 and 2024 and to give them life we were fortunate to get to collaborate with Portland, OR based producer and recording engineer Tucker Martine (known for his work with My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, and Neko Case) at the iconic recording studio Flora Recording and Playback.
We brought in old friends and new from our records of past including The Perfect Plan’s drummer J.T. Bates (Taylor Swift, Bonny Light Horseman, Anais Mitchell), bass player Sydney Nash, and our Horse Camp collaborators Adam Roszkiewicz and Leif Karlstrom (Front Country, Small Town Therapy). It was a delight on the senses to record, eat, laugh, cry, and further explore these songs as they emerged in the studio together. It’s a record that aside from giving voice to our songs reflects the gentle and curious space that we all held and we can’t wait to share the magic that was created in that studio.
This is our first album without a record label or distribution support. As independent artists we rely solely on our fans to support us directly whether it be through coming to live shows and purchasing our music, sharing our music, sharing our posts, listening etc. Neither of us come from a financial reality that supports making a living as artists easy. We do it out of our love and commitment to the project and because we’ve been fortunate enough to have a fan base that has made it possible thus far. We both live very low on the hog and pour a lot of our own resources into keeping The Lowest Pair afloat.
We decided to crowdsource as an option to help support and release the record this time because we have the opportunity to work with a team of people that will help enable our project to reach a larger audience. We try to approach the business side of this with humility and openness. It’s not an easy way to make a living, nor is it our forte. We struggle a bit in the realm of commodifying art, but we love what we do and find such magic in the connection of sharing our songs that we have hung in there. That said, we need YOU, our friends, fans, community, and family, to help us. We’re incredibly grateful to each of you all for any and all support you’re able to send our way, even if it’s just letting other folks know about the project.
As of October 13th, this project has raised $24,000 of their $26,000 goal. This project has 10 days left to raise the $26,000 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $20, you will get one digital album. For a pledge of $30, you will get one signed CD. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelowestpair/the-lowest-pair?
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