Why Canadian songwriter Del Barber went off the grid to record his new album ‘Easy Keeper’
” he says. “It sounds kind of dumb, or too high level, but I think that meekness isn’t necessarily as looked upon as fondly in our society as it should be. The people I look up to, and the characters I try to write about, and the person I’m trying to channel, is meek.”
Instead, like John Prine , Barber writes the types of songs his characters might listen to themselves. After he wrote his new standout “Everyday Life,” the tale of a man who finds contentment in his life “lining up the labels on cans of chunky soup” at a grocery store, Barber realized that he had written a “sadder version” of Prine’s 2004 chestnut “Safety Joe.”
As a songwriter, Barber, like Prine, is interested in delivering his songs in a language plainspoken enough that it’s accessible for a wide range of listeners. “I don’t want to be a person who just finds a choir and preaches to it,” he says. “I don’t try to write from my own perspective, this middle-class white-guy background. I’m always keen to write songs that are from the perspective of people that I don’t necessarily understand. That’s sort of why I write.
“No one had ever done this in Canada, and there are tons of songs about hockey, and I love the game. In my first email, I talked about how I don’t want to put the album out under my name, how it was just a fun project. And then, somehow, they ended up putting it out under ‘Del Barber and the No Regretskys.’ At that point, I told them there’s no way I’m promoting this record. And since then, we basically parted ways.
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