After unhappy stints at several record labels, the Los Angeles singer/songwriter duo Lowen Navarro have subsided to their own imprint for this, their sixth overall album, Live Radio. The disc is culled from Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro's four appearances on Roz and Howard Larman's L.A. public radio show FolkScene in 1994, 1996, 1998, and 1999, and it allows them to return to the two-acoustic-guitars, two-part-harmonies style that they honed in gigs around L.A. in the 1980s; it's their "unplugged" album. For old-time fans, that should be welcome. On Lowen Navarro's last couple of studio albums, Pendulum (1995) and Scratch at the Door (1998), they turned to more of a rocking style, while this stripped-down approach puts their songs front and center. It also allows them to reclaim for their own material featured on those albums and on the earlier Broken Moon (1993), making it something of a successor to Live Wire (1997), the archival album drawn from one of their 1989 club dates. There are no interview segments here, no spoken words except a count-in, so the effect is of a continuous musical performance in which the two often alternate lead vocals by song and sometimes by verse, then sing the choruses together, Lowen's tenor soaring over Navarro's deeper, gruffer voice. There are articulate love songs and poetic reflections on life's travails, all with delicate, detailed guitar playing and catchy choruses. The two may not have given up the search for a rock & roll hit -- they make a point of taking issue with the idea that their music is "folk" in the strict sense in the brief liner notes -- but this album suggests that they may have found their level and, perhaps, may earn a loyal audience by presenting their music in an unadorned way. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

1		What I Make Myself Believe
2		Crossing Over
3		Broken Moon
4		Someone Like You
5		Pendulum
6		Avalanche
7		Weight of the World
8		When the Lights Go Down
9		Just to See You
10		Constant As the Night
11		All Is Quiet
12		Until the Well Runs Dry
13		Rapt In You
14		Nobody Knows
15		Waltzing the Shadows