When the St. Paul-based “Lowertown Line” premiered on New Year’s Eve, Minnesota music fans got a live “Austin City Limits”-style performance from Trampled By Turtles and an appearance from special guest Alan Sparhawk of Low.
Minnesota Original’s 30-minute music program airs on Twin Cities Public Television and, according to the Star Tribune, will roll out slowly in 2013. Dessa hosts.
You’ll see/hear on this episode: “Walt Whitman,” “Midnight on the Interstate,” “Keys to Paradise,” Low’s “When I Go Deaf” (with Sparhawk), “Alone.”