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American Aquarium: Roadtrip to Raleigh - Lincoln Theater

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Great local music venue! Drinks were around $7-11/each. Security was a bit pushy at the end and... read more

I saw 2022 Grammy Award winners Soja here on November 1. For a general admission place it’s really... read more

American Aquarium: Roadtrip to Raleigh

Really enjoyed this show. Amazing sound system. General Admission (managed to get up close) Staff was very friendly. There are additional bathrooms upstairs fyi.

Was surprised to have such an intimate experience. Very nice venue ! The sound was great , ample amount of space. Great selection of beers to choose from. Would love to see another show here if I were to visit again.

Nothing and I mean nothing fancy here. Typically overpriced drinks and the food was, well... not there. That being said, it is a great place to see bands. Not a bad seat in there. I come up from Myrtle Beach to see bands so it must not be bad.

Went to a sold out show on a hot August night. Standing room only and the bands were great, but the air quality in the theater was not good. Stifling humidity levels and no real indication of ventilation/air conditioning unless you count the two little ceiling fans up by the stage. The bands were soaked in sweat as was the audience. We left after the third song of the main act because it was stifling to stand inside the theater. It seems like a great venue and the drink prices were reasonable. Friendly staff too. It could be awesome, but management needs to invest in the building's HVAC to make it great. I hope they do as it will make this place top shelf. Ticket prices were unbeatable, very reasonable.

My husband and I went here a few weeks ago with a group of friends. I love how you could see from just about anywhere and the drinks were pretty good too. I'm also a fan of being able to leave and come back in the building. I will definitely go back.

So I travel all around to see up and coming bands at smaller venues, with that being said ,this is the first venue that did not have a security check upon going in . There were no issues at this concert (Lacuna Coil) however anyone could have snuck anything in , guns, drugs, etc... That made me a little uneasy . The venue itself was great , the acoustics were good and the set up was small and personable . The bartenders were very nice and drinks were very good, not watered down and reasonably priced . I will probably go back, however there needs to be some type of security to assure the performers and the publics safety .

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American Aquarium’s Road Trip to Raleigh.

Thursday, February 22, 2024 By Chip Frazier

One of the best experiences came on Saturday. Barham did a solo acoustic show. He has previously held this event at a coffee shop, but this year he went for a little bigger (not exactly big, it was a 150 people) venue at a local Gay/Queer bar, Ruby Deluxe. I had no idea of the surprise he had planned for the event. American Aquarium is soon releasing a new Shooter Jennings produced album. He played the album from beginning to end that morning. I’ll put it this way, I can’t wait until it comes out with full band in tow. The songs were as personal and deep as anything he has ever written. It is almost a certainty that the new album will be exceptional.

Each of the three nights American Aquarium did sets that were over two hours and as high energy as I have ever seen from the band. (I have seen them a lot.) Also, there were virtually no repeat songs. Yes, of course, “I hope He Breaks Your Heart” and “Burn, Flicker, Die” were played each night. The only other repeat I recall was “Katherine Belle” which was played on two nights. (There may have been others, but that is all I recall). “Katherine Belle” was the first song on the 2009 album “Dances for the Lonely”. On Thursday night to get things started, the band honored the 25th anniversary of the album by playing it from beginning to end. It is a classic album and was so cool to see them do it live. A few of the songs they were playing live for the first time in over a decade. It was all even better from there. It seemed is the band exuded more energy on each night. Why was this the case? It is a simple answer. B. J. Barham loves his fans, and that is the whole point of Road Trip to Raleigh.

The venue in Raleigh, Barham’s home base, was the Lincoln Theater, with capacity of less than 1000. That is why I am shocked he was able to get Charles Wesley Godwin to play. Godwin recently sold out two nights at the Ryman and is selling out big venues all over the country. No matter. His friendship with Barham lured him there, and he and his band’s killer set was fit for a stadium. This venue is not only too small for him, it is too small for American Aquarium. Barham’s goal is to create an intimate setting for the fans and the band. He no doubt succeeded. It was my first Road Trip to Raleigh. God willin’ and the creek don’t rise, it won’t be my last.

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• Before the Dogwood Blooms
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• The Long Haul
• Losing Side of Twenty-Five
• Man I'm Supposed to Be
• Burn.Flicker.Die.
• Lonely Ain't Easy
• All I Needed
• The First Year
• Abe Lincoln by The Backsliders
• John Deere Green by Joe Diffie
• When We Were Younger Men

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Raleigh-based american aquarium's new album, "lamentations," is their biggest hit yet.

Thursday, May 14, 2020, 2pm by David Menconi

Note: Authored by David Menconi, this piece has been produced in partnership with  Raleigh Arts .

The week after Raleigh, N.C., roots-rock band American Aquarium ’s new album “Lamentations” was released, frontman BJ Barham got a call from the group’s record label asking if he’d seen the latest Billboard charts. Barham said no and was told, “You’ll want to go check that out really quick.”

“It was a pretty crazy day,” Barham said with a laugh a day later. “Obviously it’s our biggest-selling record to date. We knew there was more buzz, just no idea just how much. It’s something you hope for as an artist, but wishing for something and having it come true are obviously two completely different things. We don’t put out records for the accolades, but it’s nice to get the pat on the back every now and then.”

The chart action takes some of the sting out of being marooned at home right now. The group’s last full-on shows were way back in Jan. at their annual “Road Trip to Raleigh” at Lincoln Theatre .

With a new album out, American Aquarium—one of the 21st century’s ultimate road-warrior acts, a band that has played up to 300 shows a year since 2005—would usually be burning up the road to play it live on stages from coast to coast.

But COVID-19 has shut down the live-concert business for the foreseeable future, which leaves Barham feeling a bit restless.

“Being off the road right now does feel weird,” Barham said. “The tour was supposed to start with what we hoped would be the No. 1 Americana album in the country. Getting that No. 1 was supposed to be the hard part, and planning the tour was the easy part. Well, it turns out we got the hard one while the thing that was always so easy to do is literally impossible right now. But I just hope this record has enough legs to where five months from now—or a year or whenever we’re allowed to go back out—people will still want to see and hear these songs and this band again. As I recall from Economics 101, demand goes up as supply goes down. So a year off as we’ve put out arguably the best album of our career should mean more people coming to see us, I hope.”

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If things are pretty upbeat in American Aquarium’s world right now, the ironic part is that it’s thanks in part to an undeniably dark record. Aptly titled, “Lamentations” is full of regrets, betraying a sense of shame in songs like “How Wicked I Was” and “The Day I Learned to Lie to You.” In contrast, Barham (who has been sober for years) leads a life of domestic contentment with a wife and young daughter.

“It’s about finding a small piece of myself in each character,” Barham says of the new album. “All 10 songs have their own specific characters, but you can also envision them all being about one character’s lamentations about things that broke him as a person. I write a lot about that guy I used to be and still sometimes see in the mirror, all the flaws and scars. The mirror can be a dark place. That kind of self-analysis has been the focus of the last couple of albums.”

To keep busy during this down-time, Barham has been playing online live-streams on Facebook and Instagram several times per week, with the obligatory Venmo tip jar. Proceeds are earmarked for his American Aquarium bandmates, so he can keep paying them even though they’re not playing.

Barham is also taking advantage of the extra time at home to write songs. He says he’s already pretty far along on another album’s worth of material and vows that the next record will come in less time than the two-year gap before “Lamentations.”

“Every writer says they want more time to just focus on the work, the art,” Barham says. “I’m curious to see how many will have taken that to heart and created something during all this. It’s actually been perfect for me. We already had this record in the can and about to come out, so no pressure. That let me explore things. I’ve done so much writing under pressure before, where studio time was booked when I still needed six more songs. It’s been nice to write for just me, not to impress bandmates or cut demos.”

You can purchase "Lamentations" on CD and vinyl—plus band merchandise—here . You can also stream on Spotify . 

Below, BJ Barham performs as part of Window Music, a webseries where musicians perform in front of its downtown Raleigh office windows. 

Header photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

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Author: David Menconi

2019 Piedmont Laureate David Menconi was music critic at The News & Observer in Raleigh for 28 years and has also written for publications including Billboard , Rolling Stone , The New York Times , SPIN , salon.com , Our State , The Bluegrass Situation and No Depression . His fifth book, " Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music ," will be published in October 2023 by University of North Carolina Press.

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