The “Waiting” Video is Here

Time is precious and life is precious. We hope our video for the song “Waiting” effectively conveys that.  We often worry about the future, or obsess about the past and forget that we live here and now.  “Now is the day that is here” sums up the song fairly well.

It is a summery song in many ways with catchy guitar hooks, honest lyrics, and melody and harmony that grabs your ears as you would expect from any Barley Station song.

“Waiting” appears as track 1 on the Barley Station album Back There Somewhere, released Sept. 14, 2017.

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New Album To Be Released Sept. 14, 2017

After releasing a litany of singles since the last album, a new album is ready to go. It will only be featuring 4 of the singles previously released and has 7 brand new songs and remixes of the singles.  The new Barley Station album is set to be released on Thursday, September 14, 2017

The title is “Back There Somewhere”.  Pre-release sales on iTunes and Amazon begin on August 10, also a Thursday.  The Instant gratification track will be the leading track, a song titled “Waiting”.

With 11 tracks on the album, each one has its own story, mood, and exemplifies how carefully selected and crafted each song was in the studio. No one song defines who Barley Station is so one won’t be picked for that purpose.

One of the more unusual songs though, is Double Star.  The song Double Star evokes imagery and terminology throughout that relates a relationship, or longing for that special someone, to the relationship between the stars and constellations and evokes astronomy terminology to explain it in a metaphorical way.

Have you heard of a wandering star? What is it? The retrograde motion of planets causing them to appear to be stars that move back and forth was the inspiration that caused the song to be written.  Like the skies at night, the relationship between people is not always what they seem.

Hear Double Star on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/embed?uri=spotify:album:2BHhGsESXYamZL6Phe0AOR

In its use of metaphors to describe this relationship one wonders if it is so far into space that they might think “is it a love out of reach or is it a possibility”?  The lines “When the sun is dark will you be my star and take me into orbit” paint a picture of the longing but in the song’s lyric “Did aurora’s laugh into your skies?” there arises the doubt – What does it mean? Can it be interpreted in several ways? Is it a joke? Is it a joy? Can you figure it out?  Listen to the lyrics and see if you can.

First released as a single in late 2015, a slightly different mix of Double Star will be appearing as track number 8 on our third full length studio album due out on September 14, 2017. True to Barley Station outlaw form, the album is a mix and blend of genres from rock to folk to country and beyond.

New Single “Double Star” Coming Soon

“Double Star” is yet another single from Barley Station soon to be released.
The artwork is finished and a release date is set for October 15, 2015.

First released only to fans via mailing list and social networks, the special page made just for this song is now made public and the art and a promo clip are now revealed, and the art alone is stunning! (The page also has the song lyrics)

Go to the page here: Preview “Double Star”

With a reputation of blending and jumping around genres a bit, as usual, this one’s different.
“Double Star” creates a more spacey atmosphere and is a bit more on the adult alternative side of things and it is like a cosmic painting of the heart in sound and lyrical texture. (Somewhat similar to “Never Leave” from the Damaged Goods album or “Dream You Lost” from the album After All)

Cover art for “Double Star”

As one pre-release review stated “Double Star” embodies the desire and longing to have that one special person by your side for all eternity.”

So here is the preview of the beautiful album art which was taken of a real “blue moon”, so we can say  this is “once in a blue moon” single song art with certainty.

Special thanks: Graphics and Cover Art by
CA Marshall – Editor of Starlight Music Chronicles and Magazine

“Double Star” will be released digitally to the following outlets:
Apple iTunes, Spotify, Groove, Deezer, Omnifone,Google Music Store, Rumblefish, Rdio, Slacker Radio, Shazam, Beyond Oblivion, YouTube Music Key, Tidal, 8tracks, Synchtank, Amazon MP3, 24-7, JB Hi-Fi, Yandex, Akazoo,  Rhapsody, GreatIndieMusic, iHeartRadio

New Single “4th of July”

Three days now until the release of the single “4th of July” by Barley Station! Here’s a little sample clip:  4th of July clip

                     Single Cover for 4th of July

Barley Station will be releasing a single on Thursday, July 2 and it is planned to be available on iTunes that day.  (and other digital retailers soon thereafter)The title is: “4th of July”. The song is a contagious downhome footstomper sitting solidly in the realm of the Americana genre and about as organic as you can get. It makes a comparison of a promised relationship to the explosiveness of a Fourth of July celebration.

But we have to warn you, if you hear it once it will be stuck in your head for the rest of your life, even if you don’t like it!

The story of how it was recorded is Coming Soon!