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American Aquarium - Things Change - New Vinyl 2018 New West - Indie Folk - Shuga Records

American Aquarium - Things Change - New Vinyl 2018 New West - Indie Folk

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Street Date: 6/22/18

In the lush tobacco fields of North Carolina where BJ Barham was raised, people work hard. Families stay nearby, toiling and growing together. BJ loves those farms and his tiny Reidsville hometown, but he had to run off and start American Aquarium, a band now beloved by thousands. He couldn’t stay, but he couldn’t really leave, either: he’s still singing about the lessons, stories, and lives that define rural America––and him.

Recorded at 3CG Records in Tulsa, OK, American Aquarium’s seventh studio album, Things Change was produced by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Fullbright and features cameos from Americana standouts including John Moreland and Jamie Lin Wilson. Stacked with BJ’s signature storytelling––always deeply personal but also instantly relatable, Things Change questions and curses current events, shares one man’s intimate evolution, and leaves listeners with a priceless gift: hope.

BJ’s candor has fueled American Aquarium’s runaway appeal, visible most clearly in consistently sold-out shows across the country and throughout Europe - between 200 and 250 dates a year. Much has changed for the band and BJ since their acclaimed last effort, Wolves. In 2017, every American Aquarium member save BJ quit the group. American Aquarium has featured about 30 players since BJ founded the outfit in 2006, and while each member has left indelible marks, the band has always been anchored by the literary songs and sometimes roaring, sometimes whispering, drawl of BJ Barham. Featuring a new band lineup that includes Shane Boeker on lead guitar, drummer Joey Bybee, bassist Ben Hussey, and Adam Kurtz on pedal steel and electric guitar, as well as a reinvigorated frontman in BJ, Things Change is American Aquarium’s first release on a label after selling thousands of records on their own.

Track List

Side A Side B
 
01 The World Is On Fire
02 Crooked+Straight
03 Tough Folks
04 When We Were Younger Men
05 One Day At A Time
01 Things Change
02 Work Conquers All
03 I Gave Up The Drinking (Before She Gave Up On Me
04 Shadows Of You
05 'Til The Final Curtain Falls