Little Barrie - We Are Little Barrie

January 6th, 2006 by JayJay

Last year brought us a lot of underrated records. Since everyone deserves a second chance, especially when it’s a good record, here’s a shameless plug for Little Barrie. Little Barrie is a London-based trio whose sound is an exciting blend of hard rock, blues, soul, and funk that calls to mind classic bands of the ’60s like Traffic and Cream, and whose loose and groovy earthiness earns it a place near the front of the jam band class.

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Formed in Nottingham in 2000 by Barrie Cadogan (guitar, vocals), Wayne Fulwood (rums, vocals), and Lewis Wharton (bass), the group released a handful of singles for small labels like Stark Reality and Showdown before getting signed to Genuine Recordings and beginning work on its first album. Produced by indie pop legend Edwyn Collins (whom Cadogan had met while working in a guitar shop), We Are Little Barrie hit the shops in February of 2005. Recorded over the course of 23 weeks in Collins’ studio, working on Wednesdays only due to Collins’ busy schedule, the band concocted an album that sounds both meticulously crafted and bashed out. The record, combined with the group’s fiery live performances, have given Cadogan a rep as one of the best young guitar slingers on the scene and led to his subbing for Morrissey’s guitarist in some live dates and collaborating with Johnny Marr and inspiring Collins to pick up his guitar again. Artemis Records released the album in the U.S. at the end of June 2005.

(info: AllMusic)

Tracklist:

1. Free Salute
2. Burned Out
3. Greener Pastures
4. Be The One
5. Please Tell Me
6. Well And Truly Done
7. Stone Reprise
8. Stones Throw
9. Long Hair
10. Thinking On The Mind
11. Move On So Easy
12. Living In And Out Of Place
13. Freeprise