“At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.”

American alternative rock musician and songwriter

Lou Barlow is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. Born Louis Knox Barlow, he is known for helping shape the lo-fi side of rock as a founding member of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion. He began in Deep Wound, his first band, formed in Amherst, Massachusetts. His work is associated with the late 1980s and early 1990s, when his music helped define a rougher, more intimate approach to alternative rock.