
SAGE ON STAGE
In the 1980s, David Lowery co-founded and fronted the alternative band Camper Van Beethoven and composed its best-known song, “Take the Skinheads Bowling.” In the ‘90s, he founded and fronted the nearly mainstream Cracker and co-wrote that band’s alternative smash “Low.” Robert Christgau once called him a “major wiseass.” But in conversation, Lowery comes off…