Each American Aquarium album is best viewed as a slice of BJ Barham’s life. The frontman writes in the moment, and his music is a distillation of the world as he sees it, and the life he has carved for himself along with his wife, Rachael, and their 8-year-old-daughter, Pearl, in the increasingly-suburbanized Wendell, NC, a half hour east of Raleigh. In the two years since the last Aquarium record, as he wrote and recorded what became New Ways to Lose, Barham has been thriving.
Aquarium’s 12th studio album showcases the band at the top of its game and Barham at the top of his craft as a songwriter. More than a decade into sobriety, and nearly that long into parenthood, Barham has a content life in his midcentury-era home a few blocks from downtown…
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American Aquarium dropped their Live at Red Rocks album and they performed their song about Wichita Falls during the concert.
It was just over a year ago that American Aquarium performed at the Red Rock Amphitheater in Colorado. This was not the band’s first show at this venue, however this one in May of 2024 was recorded for a live album. One song that a lot of folks love here locally is ‘Wichita Falls’. We have a lot of songs that mention or are written about Wichita Falls. Pat Metheny’s album ‘As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls’ is probably the most famous nationally. American Aquarium’s song titled Wichita Falls is probably the most famous here in town. American Aquarium front man BJ Barham wrote the song after a concert in 2013 at The Iron Horse Pub.