2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Presented by: NME/ UK Trade & Investment

Barns Courtney

Saturday, March 19
11:00PM - 11:40PM

Latitude 30
512 San Jacinto St

Artist-2178

Listen to Glitter & Gold

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Modern day voice and guitar man Barns Courtney is on an excitingly unexpected journey.

His first track ‘Glitter & Gold’ was dropped unceremoniously on Soundcloud in September, where, with its hybrid of gospel-blues, Westerns soundtrack, the marching hip hop of Kanye’s ‘Jesus Walks’, and Barns’ honey & sand delivery, it charged out of the gate with over forty thousand plays on Soundcloud and an addition to the BBC Introducing Playlist.

Another track ‘Fire’ – a raucous blues rocker as big sounding as the Western frontier and as catchy as the subject of its title – had something of an unforeseen leg up. Originally set for modest release in the new year, an early version of the track caught the ears of Hollywood mega producer Harvey Weinstein who plucked it out of thousands of songs to feature it as the main song on the Bradley Cooper-starring feature film ‘Burnt’.

Indirect paths can be traced all the way through Cou...

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