Sam Connour is known for getting her kids to school on time seven out of every ten days. On some of those days, she also writes songs about widowhood (and what grief looks like when you smash it into the mundane experiences of everyday life) as Lo Sy Lo. Attuned listeners may pick up on her North Dakotan roots and 20 years of sitting behind a church piano trying to make other people sing. Gracious listeners will ignore the fact that she keeps writing songs on the guitar that she still needs to learn how to play. Hopeful listeners may hear of beauty and brokenness in the same breath and feel a little less alone in the world. (Also, melanoma sucks. Mind your moles.)