Adrian Crowley: “I’m Fascinated with How the Songs Come to Me”
Adrian Crowley works in the shadowy overlap between songwriterly craft and dream narratives. On his ninth full-length, he evokes bright, surreal worlds in his folk-influenced songs.
The Watchful Eye of the Stars
Adrian Crowley
30 April 2021
Adrian Crowley remembers the Saturday morning when the song “Northbound Stowaway” arrived. “I was just sitting down, playing these two chords, and the title was there in my mind for a while, and I was wondering what it was and it was just there,” he recalls. “And then the first three verses just came and my son was passing the doorway. He was going up the stairs and just when I was singing the chorus for the first time, and he stopped on the stairs and he smiled and nodded.”