My friend and videographer Bluematter1969 has created a stunning video of my song "Years May Go By" from The Crossing. In case you missed it, it's on my home page, here:

http://barrywalshmusic.com/index/

I just finished putting together our walk-in music disc for the upcoming "Woman On The Wheel Tour 2013". It's one of my favorite parts of the touring process. We get to pick our favorite new (to us) music, put it on a disc, and listen to it in each venue on the tour as people walk in. It's a nod to the artists we listen to, as well as a surreptitious way of pushing our musical tastes on to an unsuspecting public! Seriously, there is something very comforting and even seductive, about hearing this music that…

The Sex Police was released a few weeks ago. Here's the news from the film company, KeyDocs, in Amsterdam:

January 16, 2013

"The premiere of The Sex Police on the dutch television channel Nederland 2 was a great success. Almost 700.000 viewers tuned in to watch the documentary of Roy Dames. 

Prevention and suppression of sexual slavery is high on the dutch political agenda. All the rules and procedures however, make it hard for John and his colleagues to get human trafficers behind bars. A passionate…

I seldom blog, but this year the accolades coming in about a CD I co-produced warranted a response. The recognition for my wife Gretchen Peters' Hello Cruel World CD has been gratifying.  It's her career album, and a singular artistic achievement.  This little recording, without a large Music Biz budget or record label machine behind it, has really made its mark in the world, for which we are grateful. But don't take my word for it. Here are some of the great mentions we've gotten about it in the last few…

Here's the Proper Records page for Paradiso:   http://www.propermusic.com/product-details/Barry-Walsh-Paradiso-143328

I'm proud to be part of the Proper family. Home of Bonnie Raitt, Aimee Mann, Richard Thompson, Gretchen Peters, Dr. John, Ian Hunter, Nanci Griffith....I'm very proud to be here!

Happy to announce that Gretchen Peters and I will be opening a few shows for John Prine next month. October 26th in Tuscaloosa, AL, and October 27th in Jackson, MS. Come out & hear the legend, John Prine. He's an amazing performer, and we're honored to be opening these shows for him!

Paradiso – Barry Walsh

Label: Scarlet Letter

Tracks - 12

Barry Walsh has been busy recently producing albums for Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell, but is best known as  a professional musician for more than three decades; in this time he has performed with Roy Orbison, Jimmy Webb and Al Green, and he's written songs that were recorded by Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and the Amazing Rhythm Aces.  He has played keyboards for years for The Box Tops and all of this is in addition to touring extensively with…

Barry Walsh
PARADISO
Scarlet Letter Records

An accomplished collection of mainly piano-led, melodic instrumentals.

Four years on from his accomplished debut solo set, THE CROSSING, Walsh has produced, arranged, engineered and penned the majority of the twelve selections on PARADISO. Walsh (piano, electric piano, synthesiser, accordion and electric guitar) is assisted on his sophomore outing by spouse/skilled songwriter Gretchen Peters (piano, vocals), multi-talented Nashville studio owners/ album…

Here's a beautiful blog I just read from a friend in the Bay area, Kelly Reiterman. She writes beautifully, and is an original thinker. Proud to call her a friend.

http://kellyreiterman.com/

 We’ve all heard the saying that “Music calms the savage beast”. I haven’t been in the company of any beasts bordering on savagery lately, so I’ll just have to take it on faith. What I do know, however, is how music can inspire and soothe a sad and…

The video you see on my homepage was produced by Eric Temple of Highway 89 Media, out of Salt Lake City, Utah. He's done great work in the past for my friend Tom Russell and also for my wife, Gretchen Peters. The song, Koblenz, is from my new Paradiso album. I'm really happy with the way it came out. It's also up now on YouTube.

I'm writing this from a hotel room in Manhattan, where Gretchen and I have been holed up for a few days doing media events in preparation for the release on January 31 of her "Hello…