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Kearney Barton: Architect of the Northwest Sound
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  • Remastered and restored audio
  • Booklet with liner notes and rare archive photos
  • Includes previously unreleased tracks

Description

Available February 21, 2020

When Seattle-based recording engineer Kearney Barton died in 2012, the 80 year-old studio veteran had spent the past 50 years recording the cream of the Seattle music scene through the decades. The Fleetwoods, Quincy Jones, The Ventures, The Wailers, The Sonics, Ann Wilson (Heart), The Frantics, The Kingsmen, and Dave Lewis to name a few. Barton also captured Seattle’s vibrant 1960s-70s R&B and soul scene, including Black On White Affair and Soul Swingers, among others, as documented in Light in the Attic’s Wheedle’s Groove series. In his later years Barton’s old school reputation drew in contemporary bands like Young Fresh Fellows, The Smugglers, The Minus 5, and The A-Bones into his studio. Essentially, when a local unknown band wanted to make a demo tape, or record their debut album, or perhaps someone just wanted to capture their uncle playing banjo or...

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Artist Bio

When Seattle-based recording engineer Kearney Barton died in 2012, the 80 year-old studio veteran had spent the past 50 years recording the cream of the Seattle music scene through the decades. The Fleetwoods, Quincy Jones, The Ventures, The Wailers, The Sonics, Ann Wilson (Heart), The Frantics, The Kingsmen, and Dave Lewis to name a few. Barton also captured Seattle’s vibrant 1960s-70s R&B and soul scene, including Black On White Affair and Soul Swingers, among others, as documented in Light in the Attic’s Wheedle’s Groove series. In his later years Barton’s old school reputation drew in contemporary bands like Young Fresh Fellows, The Smugglers, The Minus 5, and The A-Bones into his studio. Essentially, when a local unknown band wanted to make a demo tape, or record their debut album, or perhaps someone just wanted to capture their uncle playing banjo...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Introduction
    0:21
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  • 2 Hey Little One
    3:01
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  • 3 Through Eyes and Glass
    3:19
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  • 4 Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother
    2:56
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  • 5 Occupation Soul
    2:16
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  • 6 Sticky
    2:23
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  • 7 Dig That Crazy Jam Session
    0:12
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  • 8 Two Guitars
    3:39
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  • 9 Ooze
    0:07
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  • 10 Flying Bird
    3:51
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  • 11 Spanish Harlem
    2:47
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  • 12 Happy
    2:52
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  • 13 Introducing a New Concept
    0:04
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  • 14 Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
    3:24
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  • 15 Everybody Knows
    3:44
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  • 16 Wrong Age
    2:53
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  • 17 With Five Types of Music
    0:04
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  • 18 Qui El Petit
    1:41
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  • 19 Gold + Mellow
    3:38
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  • 20 Sunshine Morning
    3:03
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  • 21 Bossa Nada
    2:28
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  • 22 For All We Know
    5:29
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  • 23 MMM MMM MMM
    2:37
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  • 24 Don't Ask Me
    2:53
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  • 25 He's Watin'
    2:44
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  • 26 High Flyer
    1:39
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  • 27 Blind Love
    1:46
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  • 28 All My Nights, All My Days
    3:07
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  • 29 Mr. Blue
    3:00
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