Daniel Lowetz at the Map Room

The driver for Pretty Boy Floyd needed a name and was given Lowetz. Decades later, his grandson is breaking into the singer-songwriter circuit sans a mob. Daniel Lowetz performed to just a handful of listeners at the Map Room of Bowery Electric tonight, but expect his audience to grow. With a repertoire of original songs and covers (Jeff Buckley and Lesley Gore), Lowetz offered clever lyrics, his singing often climbing into the falsetto range. Meanwhile his acoustic guitar remained very busy, as he quickly finger-picked and hand-strummed with one hand and rapidly changed chords with the other. Lowetz will be performing at ZirZamin on February 15.