New Music Critique: Parker Barrow

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Parker Barrow
Contact: [email protected]
Web: weareparkerbarrow.com

Seeking: Label, Management
Style: Southern Rock

Husband & wife duo Parker Barrow deliver a big, ballsy, blues-rockin’ southern rock with lots of guts and swagger—totally in keeping for a band named for bank robbing legends Bonnie & Clyde. “Count Your Dollars” rocks right out of the gate with a garage-rock feel, driven by a high-tuned snare drum. But, as with all the songs, it is singer Megan who tears it up. You don’t often hear her brand of swagger, her incredible bite-down-through-the-bone passion. Is she possessed by the ghost of Janis Joplin? Whether it’s the 3/4 waltz time “Desire” or the upbeat, hard-rocking “Peace, Love, Rock N Rollin,” Megan’s powerful pipes display incredible passion, inhabiting the lyrics’ spirit, right down to her final belly laugh.