About Embedded Reporter

Embedded Reporter

Embedded Reporter does lowbrow music for smart people. It is all over the map stylistically including folk, country rock, blues, Tin Pan Alley, roots, TV & Movie tunes, Broadway, Latin and more. “We’re a singer’s band,” says Howard Lewis, Band Grand Poobah By Default.

Expect rich lyrical content. Instrumentation is “acoustic” except the band plays through a PA and juices the sound on occasion. About half of the songs are inventions in the sense that Lewis wrote them. “Darrell has added the class,” he says, referring to Darrell Smith (violin, hand percussion). “Stylistically the original material is also all over the map. We are called Embedded Reporter because we sing about what we see wherever we go. It’s fair to say we have traveled far and wide.”

Howard Lewis has been performing for forty years, playing acoustic guitar primarily, and piano when pressed. His first band, Alberta Blue, toured the East Coast from 1971 to 1976 successfully avoiding incarceration. Subsequently Lewis performed solo or with others on an ad hoc basis until meeting Darrell Smith at Riveredge Nature Center four years ago. Lewis and Smith have been gigging together ever since in venues ranging from posh to pernicious.

“It’s all good,” says Lewis. “We’ll sing anywhere. Our music is egalitarian and approachable for everyone.”

Contact Information:

Howard Lewis

(262)573–0325