Career
In addition to releasing two albums, What Are You Singing About (2006) and Calm the Rising Waters (2010), she performed at Glastonbury Festival 2009 and appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s Wake Up to Wogan. A native of the Dorset seaside resort town of Bournemouth, Lou Brown describes herself as a folk artist and, in his March 2009 Folk World review of What Are You Singing About, Adolf Goriup wrote that "Lou is a wonderful singer with a soft voice and a great feeling for rhythm, which she proves with the outstanding opening song "Morning Light"", concluding the write-up with, "Lou Brown has recorded an album that is really worth listening to I’m sure you’ll like lieutenant" The album received airplay on regional United Kingdom radio stations such as Wave 105, Original 106 in Southampton and Bristol, Forest FM, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Bristol, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Gloucestershire, British Broadcasting Corporation Southern Counties Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation Somerset and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Solent.
After years of gigging extensively around the United Kingdom, she took the album to America in 2008, playing a series of dates in Chicago and Iowa.
Back in the United Kingdom, she played support slots for Hazel O"Connor, Paul Young, Boo Hewerdine, Albert Lee, Clive Gregson, and Steve Tilston. Her 29 June 2009 national radio debut on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s Wake Up to Wogan came about in the aftermath of the Glastonbury Festival appearance.
In 2010, her second album, Calm the Rising Waters, produced by Clive Gregson, was released.
