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Whitehorse, YT, CANADA
Caribou Records
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After honing her banjo chops beside a campfire in the Yukon and exploring a career in horse-logging, Kim Barlow embarked on an eccentric musical career that has taken her from Inuvik to the UK; and from Yackandandah, Australia, to Cape Spear, Newfoundland. She has recorded four CDs of her own, and also performs with Annie Lou, an all-girl hillbilly band, and Spring Breakup, a duo she started with Mathias Kom of The Burning Hell. She’s a two-time Juno nominee; with her second CD, Gingerbread, and most recently with Annie Lou, for their 2010 self-titled release.

Kim Barlow’s songs are wry and impassioned, deft distillations of the beautiful and absurd world she inhabits. Playing guitar and frailing banjo, Barlow creates rich and unexpected settings for her fables of lost children, allegories for love and loss, and examinations of the natural world and the other-worldly. 

 

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Saplings
Label Independent
Released November, 2010
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Saplings
Champ
Label Jericho Beach Music
Released January, 2007
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Champ
luckyburden
Label Caribou Records
Released January, 2004
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Gingerbread
Label Caribou Records
Released February, 2001
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Gingerbread

Spring Breakup Valentines Tour

posted by KimBarlow on Jan 10, 2011  
Mathias Kom and I are about to embark on an epic tour, taking us from Golden, BC to Dawson City to the Maritimes. Our new CD, “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, is complete, and we’re celebrating. This CD is the manifestation of many stories and ideas we collected while touring in 2008/9, followed by three weeks in Berlin last September turning them into songs, which we then recorded at the House of Miracles in London, ON. Some of the songs are sad, some are absurd, some have a really nice calypso rhythm, and they all have banjo and ukulele – you can’t go wrong! We’d love to see you out there on the wild winter road. Tour dates and details are mostly final but still unfolding, so check www.kimbarlow.ca for updates. Kim
posted by KimBarlow on Jan 10, 2011  

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Spring Breakup Valentines Tour

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New CD, Saplings

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