Jim Barrett will be playing New Year’s Eve at Proud Larry’s with ILLLS, Flight, Child Star, and Dent May.
Interview from The Local Voice #146 – by Kim Holloway
Music style/genre: Pop
Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi
Early music experience: Learned to play the drums with pots and pans, toy drumset, first drumset at 10 or 11
Favorite musicians / bands: David Byrne, Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Go West
Music schooling: Primarily self taught, drum lessons one summer
Favorite style / genre: R & B
Favorite instrument: Banjuitar, combination of banjo and guitar
Where do you practice: Either a band member’s house, Dude Ranch, wherever
Have you ever been hassled for practicing: parent’s house, garage
What was the first concert you witnessed: Saliva at Memphis in May
What bands have you played in: Young Buffalo, ILLLS, Flight, Child Star, & Night Light
One thing you would like to change about Oxford’s music scene: More jam bands
Most famous person you’ve jammed with: Martin Powell
Do you have a ‘day’ job: Mover for 3 Men and a Truck Moving, Party Waiting to Happen Catering
Where do you hang out in Oxford: City Grocery, South Depot, or the Dude Ranch
Aspirations: Sitting on a pile of grammies and gold records, sippin bubbly throwin dolla bills
Website: youngbuffalo.bandcamp.com, illls@bandcamp.com
If you could play for thousands of people, where and when would it be: Thousands of people in a crop circle in Hawaii.
I do not typically remark but I gotta state respect for that post about this one.