The song finished its run with a #34 entry on the Hot 100, and eventually, a platinum digital certification. It's just about my relationships and how I'm on this long road to love." Universal Republic picked up the single from independent distribution, and by 2010, it was within the Top 15 of the country charts. Jaron told CMT, "right now it's really just my story. In 2009, Jaron released his solo debut single, credited to "Jaron and the Long Road to Love." The "and the long road to love" part referred not to a musical entity, but rather a state of mind. Followups to "Crazy for This Girl" flopped, the Lowensteins ended their careers to start families, and Evan and Jaron looked to be yet another mostly overlooked footnote in the pop tumult at the turn of the millennium.
The combination of heavy rock guitars and cellos is straight out of Dann Huff's playbook, and the lyrics about young love wouldn't be out of place if sung by the current passel of younger-skewing country acts (Gloriana, Love and Theft, Dan + Shay, Hunter Hayes, etc). By 2000, they had put out their debut album for Columbia Records, led off by the Top 20 pop hit "Crazy for This Girl" A listen to "Crazy for This Girl" finds elements that, while they might have been a little "out there" even in the poppy, bland country format of 2000, many of the song's elements sound surprisingly akin to what's "in" in country right now.
They grew up in a Jewish household in Atlanta, and cut their teeth on coffeehouse gigs. Though natives of Georgia, identical twin brothers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein don't come from a country background in the slightest.
Other times, they lead to interesting anomalies, such as Jaron and the Long Road to Love (aka Jaron Lowenstein). A good example of this is Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish, who has had considerable success with his three country albums. The results are often mixed and can often smack of carpetbagging or calculation - oh hi, Jessica Simpson - but every now and then, an act comes along who actually seems to fit in. Every now and then, a non-country artist manages to reinvent himself as, well, a country artist.
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