Barry Waller

IN simpler times, calling a sub-genre of emotionally driven music EMO would be unneccessary. Then again, in simpler times there'd be no MySpace, so do come in...
I spend a good part of my life chiseling away at this music - on a good day you can tell. Never mind what I did or didn't do in High School - it was too long ago, and even then it was a bit of a blur...I fell out of High School and landed in MAZARIN, my first working band, and I've made my living in music ever since. FLASH FOWARD to December 2005, when I first experienced Europe as a "Troubadour," playing pubs in Copenhagen, Denmark for two straight months... Then I played in the Swiss Alps (I like high stages), where apparently every night it's Saturday - do they use a different calendar???
The good news: all that time away playing six nites a week accelerated my musical growth and stamina (otherwise known as chops), while affording me the head space to write most of my CD-in-progress, working title: "FIRST GLANCE"
As BARON SAINT JAMES, I spent 2007 as the newest minstrel in BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, a 7-piece Renaissance-tinged folk/rock experience, whose founding father just happens to be living legend RITCHIE BLACKMORE (of DEEP PURPLE fame). While I trotted the globe as their bassist/acoustic rhythm guitarist, I continued to write. You can sample some of the results, or something like them, here. Hope you do.....