Local Musician: Jim Barrett
Jim Barrett will be playing New Year’s Eve at Proud Larry’s with ILLLS, Flight, Child Star, and Dent May.
Interview from The Local Voice #146 – by Kim Holloway
Jim Barrett photograph by Mike Stanton
Music style/genre: Pop
Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi
Early music experience: Learned to play the drums with pots and pans, toy drumset, first drumset at 10 or 11
Favorite musicians / bands: David Byrne, Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Go West
Music schooling: Primarily self taught, drum lessons one summer
Favorite style / genre: R & B
Favorite instrument: Banjuitar, combination of banjo and guitar
Where do you practice: Either a band member’s house, Dude Ranch, wherever
Have you ever been hassled for practicing: parent’s house, garage
What was the first concert you witnessed: Saliva at Memphis in May
What bands have you played in: Young Buffalo, ILLLS, Flight, Child Star, & Night Light
One thing you would like to change about Oxford’s music scene: More jam bands
Most famous person you’ve jammed with: Martin Powell
Do you have a ‘day’ job: Mover for 3 Men and a Truck Moving, Party Waiting to Happen Catering
Where do you hang out in Oxford: City Grocery, South Depot, or the Dude Ranch
Aspirations: Sitting on a pile of grammies and gold records, sippin bubbly throwin dolla bills
Website: youngbuffalo.bandcamp.com, illls@bandcamp.com
If you could play for thousands of people, where and when would it be: Thousands of people in a crop circle in Hawaii.
About the Author
Newt Rayburn Newt Rayburn founded THE LOCAL VOICE in March of 2006. Previously, Newt was Editor of PROFANE EXISTENCE in Minneapolis, and Art Director for Ole Miss' LIVING BLUES magazine. Newt won a National Magazine Award in 1999 for his SOUTHERN MUSIC ISSUE with THE OXFORD AMERICAN. A seventh-generation Lafayette County, Mississippian, Newt Rayburn's alter ego—Neuter Cooter—lead the Mississippi band THE COOTERS to Rocknoll Glory across the USA from 1993-2018. Newt is a family man who also is a publisher, photographer, writer, musician, landlord, and Civil War enthusiast.
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