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The Barr Brothers Are the Pride of Providence

Dec 6, 2017

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The Barr Brothers (with band member and harpist Sarah Page) play the Great American Music Hall December 13th (Photo: Brigitte Henry/Barr Brothers)

The Barr Brothers are originally from my hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, which has not been a hotbed for music other than the Talking Heads. So I have to thank Brad and Andrew Barr for writing an album of indie songs about their misspent youth in Little Rhody, They probably had more fun than I did, but we both left (with the Barr Brothers living in Canada). Their new album, with indispensable harpist Sarah Page, is a model of lo-fi indie folk-rock, folk-blues, and other hyphenates, sounding a bit, as my co-host Jeffrey Edalatpour notes, like Lord Huron or Sun Kil Moon. Good company. Details here.

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