Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Simon Howard has released his powerful new single, “Lost and Found.”
The sparse, deeply felt Americana track 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.
At its core, “Lost and Found” is a song about being genuinely, thoroughly lost, and about the decision to find your way back.
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 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.
Steadily Building Momentum and Tastemaker Support
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 vocals 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.
Upcoming Tour Dates
The release of the single coincides with a busy live schedule across the UK and international boundaries over the coming months.
On July 4, Howard will play the Open Air Anniversary Show at Rodeos in Birmingham, England, before heading to Norfolk the following day, on July 5 to perform at the Folk In A Field festival.
Later in the summer on August 29, he will make a dual appearance at The Long Road Festival in Leicestershire, England, performing on both the Front Porch Stage and in the VIP Area.
Following these UK festival dates, Howard will travel across the Atlantic from September 25-27 to take part in the Nashville Takeover in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
