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Average audio length:
46 minutes
English
United States
29 episodes
since Sept. 18, 2025
episodic

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Kurt and Christian are as happy as a dog with two tails and even got some breaky before recording. Lee Raybon is out of jail and we get the return of "Big D." Some important pieces of the puzzle come together for Lee, including the lanky, but imposing Judge Jed Sallsman (played by the mas…

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In Season 2, Episode 4 of The Lowdown, directed by Scott Teems and written by Liz Blood, Lee’s night ride through Tulsa picks up right where the last episode left off, with a cop in the trunk and Cyrus, the fixer, on the phone. Christian and Kurt follow Lee from the dentist’s chair to Woodrell Coun…
Is the truth easy? The Oracle of Boontill says it is, and he sends Lee off with a mug to prove it. Christian and Kurt spend the episode testing that claim. Kurt starts to suspect that Ginger, who is all over the place and barely mourns Chili Franks, might not be telling Lee the whole truth, even as…
The Lowdown Slowdown celebrates Tom Petty’s birthday this October 20th. Beau Jennings is marking it with an album of Petty covers, recorded solo, guitar and voice into a single mic. In this special "Beau-nus" episode of The Lowdown Slowdown, Christian sits down with Beau to talk about how…
In their recap of The Lowdown’s S2E2, “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound,” hosts Christian and Kurt dig into what feels like na lighter, jokier season where the supporting cast gets to let loose. They follow Lee’s two-front persistence, from a sexy prison guard calendar and that “Legs and eggs” sign to a…
In their recap of The Lowdown’s Season 2 premiere, hosts Christian and Kurt slow down for a rainy night at Cain’s Ballroom, the arrival of Tommy Lee Jones as Lee Raybon Sr., and a father-son dynamic with a whole lot of Oedipal energy. Along the way they cover Betty Gilpin’s arrival as Ginger, a ve…
Most people meet Jim Thompson through The Killer Inside Me and Lou Ford, the deputy whose mild manner hides a killer. Five years later, in 1957, Thompson brought Lou back in Wild Town, set 20 years earlier. Is this the same man planted in a different place or just a killer in another time? To find …
Christian talks with Colin Asher, author of The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music, recently longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Colin is also the author of Never a Lovely So Real, the biography of Nelson Algren, Thompson's contemporary and fellow Feder…
The series journey into Thompson's world goes through Iowa City, where Christian talks with Harry Stecopoulos, Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Harry recently wrote "Red Noir" for The Baffler, a review of the new Library of America collection Jim Thompson: Five Noir Novels of the 195…
Christian sits down with Robert Polito, the man who wrote the book on Jim Thompson, quite literally, Savage Art . Polito also edited the new Library of America collection. If anyone can explain why a dime-store paperback writer keeps being relevant, it's him. They spend most of the conversation ins…
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