Live Video: The Barr Brothers

Live Video
12/10/2014
Jim Beckmann
photo by Jim Bennett (view set)

"Put your hand on the chest / of a heart that is beating" -- the line comes from a song they didn't play during their recent session at KEXP, but it's the same tangibly intimate invitation you get whenever you hear The Barr Brothers's music, like you can actually touch the creative force coursing through. Last week, we got up close and personal once again as the Montreal-based band returned to our studio to share songs from their phenomenal 2014 album, Sleeping Operator. You'd be twice more than half crazy not to join them in the tight space of our starry room:

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