Anyone ever listen to this dude? It's the singer from Avail, but he writes this really awesome stripped down alt/country/folk rock stuff. It ranges from beautiful piano drenched tear jerkers, to fun beer drinkin' acoustic rockers.
I met the guy after a show last week, and he couldn't have been nicer. Drank a bunch of beers with us, and remembered all our names (something I can never do)

If you never listened, I highly recommend this album:

I will have to listen on myspace or other sometime.... I used to like Avail back in the 90's but they do nothing for me now.

Yeah, he has a bunch of good songs on myspace.

I think he said Avail is pretty much done. Or at least he's done with them.

i was so close to makin a brent barry parody thread

and then a rick barry one

I don't know either of those guys

I just dig where this guy is coming from and what he has to say. Read if you are a fan of music...and life. It's authentic and inspiring. Everything that music, and human beings in general should be:

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Home from Tour

News Update:


I left Richmond on February 27th for tour. The trees were bare and the ground cold. It's the end of April now and I just got home. There's nothing but miles and miles of green. It's 90 degree's out. Everything is in full bloom. The garden is showing signs of life. I've been at the river for the last couple hours swimming with my dog Emma. I feel like I got home just in time.

There is something to be said about changing seasons. Each season affords you the opportunity to assimilate into it. I always say that "the summer is for raising hell and the winter is for documenting it." I feel an urgent need to switch up with the season. To switch my routine. For the last couple months it's been "play, sleep, drive, play, sleep, drive."

I've played over 100 shows since October. So now I need to do something else until the urge to play again comes back. I need to get on the rails, to spend time outside. To see from different perspectives. To take a break and look in different directions. To live in different moments.

For the time being, musically, I will do some random "one off" shows this summer. And I will also begin the slow process of making a new album beginning on May 15. I will not record in the traditional sense. Meaning I'm not blocking out X amount of time in the studio and stressing myself out with a deadline on the creative process. I will simply record off and on, a couple days at a time, until I have recorded the right amount of songs that FEEL RIGHT to put together as a full length.

The tour I just finished blew my mind. It blew my mind because it was challenging some nights and easy others. It blew my mind because we played festivals and basement shows and everything in between. Because music is to be played in every kind of setting and environment. And should never become redundant.

It blew my mind because it's all coming together. I have people who help me now. People who do a ton of work behind the scene to keep me vertical and moving: Tim Shaw my tour manager. Matt Gere who sells my merch. Margie Alban who books my shows. Virgil at Suburban Home Records who who puts out my songs. Vanessa Burt at Mutiny who does my publicity. Logan Kornhauser who prints my shirts and takes care of my website, because I don't have the patience to learn it on my own. Josh Small, my right hand man, who shares the stage with me during my set each night, after playing his own. And of course Austin Lucas who shared the road with all of us. And this list doesn't even come close to including all the local promoters and friends who bust their asses to put on shows in their towns and cities. OR all the people who go out of their way to make it to the shows so we can all have a blast.

I don't know what's going on, but this is all beginning to make much more sense. And it FEELS RIGHT. So I'm gonna keep on doing what ever it is I'm doing.


In a long winded way, I'm saying thank you.


There will be many more tours and songs coming.

Tim Barry

April 28, 2009

Richmond, Va

This dude is the real deal.

His new CD, 40 Miler is pretty freaking good...

Good interview, this:

i really like his stuff i'll have to check out the new one