Richard’s Uncle has gone away (but you can find him in the Debt Records shop)

Richard Barry is one of the most fondly revered performers on the UK folk circuit and Debt Records is making it their business to bring his work to a wider audience (whether he likes it or not). In the past Richard has shared the bill with the likes of Bob Geldof, Kiki Dee, Midge Ure, Fairport Convention and Dr Feelgood but now, at last, he is taking centre stage.

When the doors were first thrown open at the wonderful Kasbahn studio in Cheshire Richard and The Chaps went over to lay down a couple of demos in the live room, helping our engineer road test the space and iron out any kinks.

The result was two lovely little tracks that deftly address some of the popular song’s greatest themes: loss of a loved one and waiting for your wife to get dressed for dinner.

We urged Richard to let us officially release this as a double A-Side but he insisted that he had something a little more special planned for his first release with the label. He did, however, consent to letting us stick them in the shop as a free promo, as a way of sign-posting some of the material those Chaps have in store for us later this year.

So, to mark our second anti-press release (whereby we endeavor to reward those who are already supporting Debt Records by giving away music for free) here is “My Uncle’s Gone Away” and “Continents”, free to download from the shop.

We would like to let you know about future offers, releases and events so in order to take advantage of this freebie we ask that you join our mailing list. It must be said, however, that everyone at Debt is generally too busy gigging, recording and drinking to send out lots of mail so you probably won’t even notice you’re on the list. Needless to say, you can unsubscribe at any time.

Below is a video of Richard Barry & The Chaps performing “My Uncle’s Gone Away” live at The Dancehouse Theatre last year.

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