Uncut readers may already be familiar with Barry Walker through his association with Ripley Johnson, for whom he serves as pedal steel guitarist in Rose City Band. Or perhaps his collaborative work alongside Patrick McDermott as country-folk duo North Americans, or else heading up experimental trio Mouth Painter, whose broad palette encompasses acid country, weird exotica and the odd freakout.
In 2021, extended solo piece “Shoulda Zenith” (from the album of the same name) fetched up on Uncut’s Sounds of The New West: Ambient Americana CD, placing Walker in roughly the same territory as Steve Gunn, Andrew Tuttle and Luke Schneider. And it’s here where Paleo Sol, the latest in a series of inquisitive solo…

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