Simon Howard Lost and Found
A raw, searching Americana confession from one of Liverpool’s most compelling voices
Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Simon Howard releases his powerful new single “Lost and Found” today —a sparse, deeply felt Americana track that marks one of the most honest and fully realised moments of his growing career. Produced by Robert Whiteley and recorded at Whitewood Studios in Liverpool, the song is built around Howard’s instinctive hammer-on chord progression, a restless double bass line that gives the track its quiet pulse, and the kind of plainspoken lyrical courage that has defined his songwriting from the very beginning.
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At its core, “Lost and Found” is a song about being genuinely, thoroughly lost—and about the decision to find your way back.
Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/46WoWJKkqDboEOgD5cCQcI?si=6ac73d0e3ae14ea0&nd=1&dlsi=79b12bab192148f8
Howard has spoken openly about the circumstances that gave birth to the track. He was living between London and Liverpool, unsettled and uncertain about nearly every dimension of his life, navigating personal difficulties and a music career that felt stuck. He asked himself simultaneously where to live, how to get back on track, and whether pursuing music was worth continuing at all. Rather than let those questions spiral, he sat down with a chord idea he had been carrying and simply put the feelings on paper.
The song that emerged moves through its verses with the unhurried honesty of a letter written to oneself:
“A mirror’s stare caught me by surprise / A worn-out look I barely recognise / Say people change, I must’ve gotten good / I’ve played it down for as long as I could.”
The chorus arrives not as a moment of tidy resolution, but as an act of will:
“I take myself to the lost and found / I won’t be back till I’ve turned it around / This ain’t my place and this ain’t my home, oh no / I need to find my soul.”
The production tells its own compelling story. Howard and Whiteley began, as they typically do, with acoustic guitar and guide vocals before laying down drums. After listening back, however, Howard felt the rhythm section was too busy—too cluttered for what the song needed. The decision to strip the drums back to something closer to pure percussion and introduce a double bass in their place transformed the track entirely. As Howard has described it, the song completely came to life for him in that moment. It has since become one of his favourite pieces to perform live, carrying with it the full weight of where it came from and the relief of what came out.
Howard’s journey to this point has been one of genuine and steadily building momentum. After spending a formative and secluded summer writing in Austin, Texas, he returned to the UK to record his debut EP Youths Ground (2021), establishing a foundation rooted in contemporary folk and pained Americana that drew immediate attention for his effortlessly heart-wrenching vocal and delicate storytelling. He followed it with his last EP, The CALL, which sharpened that foundation into something leaner and more direct—Americana storytelling delivered with even greater emotional clarity.
His 2022 single “Not Like Superman”, a song about the exhaustion of trying to please everyone and never being enough, arrived with body-hitting drums and a powerful eight-piece string section and earned airplay on BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio, and Express FM. His follow-up single “Trojan Horse” built on that momentum further, with both tracks cementing his reputation as a songwriter with genuine emotional range and the craft to match.
In 2025, he placed in the top three out of 400 artists at the Homegrown Talent Contest at The Long Road Festival, a result that speaks directly to how his music lands in a room full of people who know the form. His work has been championed by Baylen Leonard on Absolute Radio Country and Dave Monks on BBC Introducing, two of the most respected tastemakers in the UK Americana and country space. In June, Howard was also named Horizon Artist of the Week on BBC Radio 2’s The Country Show with Bob Harris, earning a play for “Brand New Start” and further underlining his growing profile in the UK Americana space.
Tour Dates:
July 4 - Open Air Anniversary Show, Rodeos - Birmingham, England
July 5 - Folk In A Field - Norfolk, England
August 29 - The Long Road Festival (Front Porch Stage) - Leicestershire, England
August 29 - The Long Road Festival (VIP Area) - Leicestershire, England
September 25-27 - Nashville Takeover - Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada