American Aquarium at The Filling Station

In the lush tobacco fields of North Carolina where BJ Barham was raised, people work hard. Families stay nearby, toiling and growing together. Barham still loves those farms and his tiny Reidsville hometown, but he ran off and started American Aquarium.
He’s still singing about the lessons, stories, and lives that define rural America and him. “I moved to the big city to go to college and fell in love with music,”Barham says. “But half the songs on our record are about small towns little pieces of my childhood. I’ve had moments where it turns out a piece of broken English my father repeated twice a week is the most accurate way to say something. So I put it in a song.”
Brandy Zdan opens.