BJ Barham of American Aquarium - A Veritable "First Responder"

BJ Barham of American Aquarium - A Veritable "First Responder"

For more than twenty years, BJ Barham—Bradley Justin, as I finally got him to reveal—has been making a living doing what he jokingly calls “making a racket.” As the songwriter and driving force behind American Aquarium, he’s logged thousands of shows, built a fiercely loyal audience, and turned the miles, mistakes, memories and hard-earned lessons of a life on the road into songs.

Their new album, New Ways to Lose, produced by Shooter Jennings, finds Barham looking both outward and inward—at disappearing small towns, ambition and perseverance, childhood memories, love, loss, family, and the strange business of getting older while still chasing the next song.

I’ve long thought of great songwriters as emotional first responders—people who sometimes find the words for things the rest of us can feel but can’t quite articulate.BJ Barham is one of those storytellers.

We had nearly half an hour to talk about the songs, the life behind them, and what keeps him making that racket. Here’s our conversation.

#songwriters #songs #communityradio #rootsmusic#tastybrewmusic #americanamusic #localmusic #troubadours #heartlandsongs

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