Taste Test: Del Barber lumbers through heartbreak & finds ‘No Easy Way Out’
The Manitoba folk singer-songwriter sinks into his misery with his sluggish new bar-topper.
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Heartbreak is not much different from one wayward, tortured soul to the next. The pain might prick your core in a vastly dissimilar fashion, but in the end, we all carry it wrapped in a knapsack on our backs. Manitoba’s smokey tenor Del Barber (newly signed to Acronym Records) places his bets on the slow-riding downcast ditty called “No Easy Way Out,” which seems to sluggishly plod through blackout after blackout as he tries to claw back out. “I don’t know how I’m still hanging round,” he mutters under his whiskey-drenched breath. Church organ moans behind him, and Barber, whose footprints scrape the earth, underscoring his trembling weariness, only ever finds a “thrill,” as he tells it, at the barrel of a gun. The pain rips through him as a lightning rod to an old oak tree, splintered and seemingly worthless. But, perhaps, the looming misery will ironically be worth it someday.
“No Easy Way Out” anchors Barber’s new album, Easy Keeper, out September 6.
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