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A worldwide audience will recognize their song “The Luck You Got” from the opening credits of Showtime’s “Shameless,” but The High Strung’s eight electrifying studio albums await those who dive deeper.
The High Strung formed nearly 20 years ago, but the friendship of four core members started in the fifth grade—underscoring their long and continually winding road. Metro Detroit natives Derek Berk, Josh Malerman, Mark Owen, and Chad Stocker formed in 2000, along with Clevelander Jason Berkowitz. It wasn’t long before they’d completed a sizeable batch of songs around the lyrics of Malerman/Owen and hit the road to tour the Midwest. That taste for adventure found them relocating from Detroit to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just as they were slated to cut an album for Tee Pee Records. Their debut (These Are Good Times) made a splash, complete with feverish music videos (“Wretched Boy” and “Real Nice Boy”) that captured their signature livewire energy.
