Dream aquarium flickering5/31/2023 “With us, having a pedal steel guitar and me, just being a redneck - I can’t really get rid of my accent - we’ll always be kind of a country band. “Which, automatically, in some people’s eyes, makes it a country band,” Barham says. The band draws more from alternative rock than the twangy country sound of earlier records, although they still make liberal use of pedal steel. Like Wilco, the music of American Aquarium has progressed through the years. We would look at each other onstage and say, ‘How did these people hear about us?’” When the record came out, we didn’t have any expectations. “The ironic part is that the record about us being complete and utter failures turned out to be the most successful record that we have ever made. “We made a record that if anybody in the next 20 years asked ‘Whatever happened to that band American Aquarium?’ they could listen to the record and actually hear a physical manifestation of the despair of why we quit as a band,” Barham says. “Burn, Flicker, Die,” produced by Jason Isbell, became the band’s best-selling album and earned American Aquarium considerable critical praise. Maybe this isn’t what I am supposed to do. Anybody, at a professional level, has to sit back and say, ‘Maybe I’m not cut out for it. We started questioning what we were doing with our lives. We were playing 300 shows a year, sleeping on floors and not making any money. “We had been putting out a record every year and 15 or 20 people were coming to the shows every night. “We had been spinning our wheels,” Barham says.
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