Lo Carmen’s Loose Connections

Hello!

Allow me to lure you into Loose Connections (once a Substack Featured Publication and currently #47 Rising In Music) - with a couple of the delightfully encouraging comments I’ve received:

‘I send you endless love and thanks for your Loose Connections because they fill me up…there is a truth and beauty and serious lightness about all of it that I find enviable and precious all at the same time’. Stephen Moyer

‘When Lo’s Substack shows up in my inbox, I always open it - just to read a few words - and invariably get totally caught up in whatever she happens to be writing about. Lo’s stories are always great. Her life is incredibly interesting and she has the turn of phrase to know how to share it too’. J Smith Cameron

I’ve been an independent operator as a producer of musical, written and other creative works since … forever.

I am a singer-songwriter/recording artist/touring musician/writer (more on that HERE) and occasional actor sharing essays and recommendations on musical and cultural delights and fascinations every weekend.

I also create and host the Death Is Not The End podcast, which launched May 2025.

I’ve been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Vogue, Talkhouse, No Depression and many other places.

My debut book, ‘femmoir’/manifesto ‘Lovers Dreamers Fighters’ - a loose weave memoir with portraits of cool women who inspired me - was published Feb 2022 via Harper Collins Australia and is currently available through all good bookstores in Australia or via Amazon in the US - but will be more widely available soon. A documentary version of the book is in development.

I launched Loose Connections because I love to write and having an excuse to research and dig into all the kinds of things I’m interested in. Writing this has brought me a lot of joy, community and esoteric education since I launched in April 2021 and I hope it brings you some too. I’m so grateful for your readership. As Ann Margret says, let me entertain you!

So far I’ve written about answer songs, psychic waitresses, songwriting, Elvis, Bob Dylan, death, cool cars, Charo, Kris Kristofferson, crime novels, touring, Dolly Parton, rehearsals, reading, moving countries, going to space and the lure of Hawaii. Who knows what’s next?

I generally include playlists or links to videos or other informative and entertaining information.

This newsletter gives me the opportunity to bring all my interests, obsessions and fascinations together into one digital home, and to you invite you, dear reader, to come along for the ride with me.

I truly love to hear your thoughts, stories and recommendations.

I’m on most social media at @locarmenmusic and you can listen to my records online. Learn more about me here: Lo Carmen links

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