The Storm Windows
- R.A.G.
- Aug 14
- 2 min read
The Storm Windows currently perform live as brothers Rob Mathews (guitar, vocal) and Don Mathews (upright bass, vocal) and Erik Andersen (drums). On May 23, this New York-based Americana trio release “I’m Going to Memphis,” the first single off their upcoming EP “More Lucky (release date: June 20). The song is a road anthem for 2025, with a message of hope tinged with a yearning for something better, and the promise of the road to try to find it. The Storm Windows have a number of live performances lined up for summer 2025, including an EP release party June 21 at the Stone Corral Brewery in Richmond, Vermont and a showcase in the historic Silver Bay, New York Auditorium on June 28 (see thestormwindows.com). The band takes their name The Storm Windows from a song title of one of their musical heroes, John Prine, but also as an appropriate description of some veteran musicians who have weathered a few storms but are still standing and singing about it. They will say: “On one level, our music is just a bunch of songs, mostly original, with which we have a personal connection. But it’s also a travelogue: part road trip; part nostalgia for something lost; part optimism for something coming. Not in any order. We hope people tune into that.” Back when the internet was young, the brothers played many shows as a duo and a band in Greenwich Village and a bunch of other places, spending many nights on the small stage in the corner of the now-gone Back Fence on the corner of Bleecker and Thompson. Then they stopped for a while, but re-emerged in 2022 with The Storm Windows project. Critics have labeled their music “New Americana” – a blend of folk, rock and even jazz laced sonics that the duo describe as a “survey the American landscape, like a cross-country adventure in a VW bus.”
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