By the time Jez Lowe recorded his first solo album in 1980, he'd already spent almost a decade playing and absorbing the traditional music of his native North East England, an area rich in working-class values, with a wealth of songs and music unique to that windswept corner of the British Isles. 

This was to be the substance from which he would create a body of work that would make him one of the hardest working, most popular and enduring of the many singer songwriters to emerge from Britain in the last twenty years. 

Born in 1955 into an Irish family, in the coal-mining community of Easington in County Durham, Jez's early interest in pop music steered him into a fascination with blues and folk, especially Bob Dylan, John Mayall, Big Bill Broonzy and Woody Guthrie. 

A chance visit to a local folk club in 1973 to hear Martin Carthy led him down another path, and by the mid-70's Jez had begun to play a mixture of Dylan, traditional, contemporary and original material, in partnership with school friend Ged Foley, later of Patrick Street and The House Band.

Constantly traveling, to Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S., Jez Lowe thrives on the live performance, while his albums regularly feature in the lists of best sellers around the folk scene. Jez has released a dozen albums: the last three on Tantobie Records an American label Jez has helped to form.

With 14 full length recordings to his credit, numerous tracks on compilation projects, three songbooks and a consistently full international touring calendar, Jez has proven himself as one of the busiest and most popular & respected performers on the international folk scene.

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Photo: Martin Woodhead

"The best songwriter to come out of England in a long time." 
~ Richard Thompson

Among those who have recorded versions of Lowe's songs, are Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, The Tannahill Weavers, Cherish The Ladies, Gordon Bok, The McCalmans, The Black Brothers, Liam Clancy and literally hundreds of artists from as far away as Australia, Canada, and the U.S.