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The Barlow: New Year, Old Me

A sure sign of a band coming into their own, carving out their spot in a particular scene, is consistency in their sound and familiar musical threads that permeate each subsequent album they release. As fans, we appreciate this because we can anticipate what is coming on new records; we get the same terrific elements that made us take an interest in (or heck, fall in love with) the band in the first place. One can likely think of a few historical examples of bands that experimented in a different sound or direction, with unfortunate and disastrous results. Consequently, appreciation for what the band was or might become in the future waned. Fans were left wondering, “will what comes from their future releases be what attracted me to them in the first place? Or will I only be disappointed about what could have been?”

The Barlow – A Colorado Band Putting Their Own Mark on the Scene

The boys from Oklahoma may roll their joints all wrong, but the fellas of The Barlow are rocking the Colorado music scene exactly right! Based out of Denver’s northwest suburb of Arvada (Arvada? The last noteworthy thing to come out of there was some band called The Fray), these four guys have a mission that drives every gig, every performance, and clearly, their first two albums. That mission: to demonstrate exactly how essential their take on Country-Rock is to the entire genre. To brush them off as just another upstart trying to ride the coat-tails of an already established country genre, simply because they do not call Oklahoma or Texas home, is to demonstrate a profound lack of understanding for what the Red Dirt movement is all about: authenticity, experiences, humility, and stories that resonate because you relate to the characters in the songs (hell, maybe you even lived those stories). They also have just enough hard-edged, honky-tonkin’ Friday night energy to have some rowdy fun! What The Barlow brings to the table will spin you up, get you re-energized about this Country music subculture we all adore, as though you were just hearing Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Randy Rogers, Ragweed or Turnpike for the first time, falling excitedly in love all over again.