Lost in America Music

06/16/2025

Our Patriarch has moved on to a better turntable in the stars. Please think of Rob Brookman tonight.

04/28/2023

Lost in America Music is delighted to announce our first post-pandemic release — and it was worth the wait. Appropriately titled “Downtime,” Lazy Old Son’s third long-player brings back together Peter Gorman (vocals), Scott Aaron (guitars), Jamie Wagner (bass, keyboards), Paul Ovink (drums, percussions) and Lisa Schrag (vocals). Recorded at SHIRK Studios in Chicago, the album is out today on all your favorite streaming services and in purchasable from Amazon.

Here's a word from head LOSer Peter Gorman about "Downtime":
“To begin with, this wasn’t going to happen, and once begun it was abandoned several times. The songs are all from before 2020, from Before Times, and then came the downtime. It took quite a while, as so much does these days. Eventually we rehearsed at some warehouse space in Chicago, I don’t know exactly where. Then we went to Shirk Studios, recording the vocals and rhythm section live, returning four months later to add the extras, keyboards and backing vocals and a bit more guitar.

We called it Downtime, of which there’s been too much, but relaxing too if you limit the dosage. A batch of songs about screwing up but hoping for redemption, and nostalgia for the pre-pill days, and summer in a college town, and staying awake all night to avoid breaking up, and that wonder drug called coffee. And though aging is inevitable, songs about aging aren’t, but some of those are here too.

So here it is, finally. A splendid time is guaranteed for some.”

Peter Gorman, 2023.
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04/08/2020

This is not a post we hoped to write for a long time. John Prine has passed. Goddammit, and god damn this virus. Some years back, John and his management were gracious enough to let our little label produce a tribute album to him, featuring local Chicago musicians. It was a labor of love and respect and fandom. Every artist involved wanted to honor him, even (and maybe especially) when they twisted his songs into shapes they'd never been in before. Anything more we could say about him would be unequal to the task. He was the very best and there will be none more like him. RIP, postman. May you enjoy that nine-mile-long cigarette.

03/30/2020

03/29/2020

12/20/2016

Nice mention for a terrific tune. One of 10 gems on "A Time to Stumble." Check out the entire recording. It's the perfect accompaniment to a conflicted or perhaps indifferent holiday season.

I’m really digging the latest single off of Lazy Old Son’s new album: A Time To Stumble. The single is called “Wide Awake And Far Away” and it has a lovely little tribal drum intro that quickly turns into a 60s inspired overture.

09/05/2016

October 10th, LIAM artist Jamie Wagner Band performs John Prine's debut album in it's entirety at Phyllis' Musical Inn on Monday, October 10th at 9 pm! Official flyer below!

08/19/2016

Lazy Old Son's second long-player, "A Time to Stumble," is now on Spotify for your listening pleasure. If it strikes a chord, you're invited to lay down a few bucks and buy the record digitally through iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby or snag yourself a physical copy from CD Baby. Supporting independent music is cool.

Lazy Old Son · Album · 2016 · 10 songs.

07/29/2016

It’s time to make America lost again. And here’s our nominee to get the job done: Lost in America Music’s very first release of 2016, “A Time to Stumble” by Lazy Old Son. The collective’s second recording (following 2010’s “The Saints of Humboldt Park”), “A Time to Stumble” features the songwriting and musicianship of Washington, DC-based Peter Gorman and a supporting cast of players from Chicago, Cincinnati and the nation’s capital. Yoking together a bevy of influences from Luna to Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian to the Kinks, “A Time to Stumble” is a capsule of the uncertainties, insecurities and, yes, the moments of bliss evident in the everyday. It’s out today, in both CD and digital form, at CD Baby, with other outlets to follow. Check it out, and lose yourself in one of the best records we’ve heard all year.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lazyoldson

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10/10/2014

Happy 68th John Prine!

The album was produced by Jamie Wagner, owner and head engineer at Chicago's Strobe Recording, located in the heart of Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. ...

01/20/2014

Let's keep John in our thoughts!

08/24/2012

..and more!!

The brilliant Cincinnati group—a little bit Flying Burrito Brothers, a little bit Velvet Underground, a lot Ohio–plays a must-see Chicago show this weekend.