Tim Barry

Tim Barry is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the former lead singer of the Richmond, Virginia-based punk rock band Avail. In addition to performing with Avail, he was the bass guitarist in the Richmond-based folk punk band (Young) Pioneers from 1994-1995. Barry has been performing folk music on his own since 2004.

After more than twenty five years of making music, and a full decade as a solo folk-rock troubadour, Tim Barry presents his first ever concert recording, Raising Hell & Living Cheap – Live In Richmond. As a forward-thinker not big on sentiment or revisiting the past, Barry had sometimes toyed with the idea of releasing a live set, but only if it resonated as an authentic document of the interplay between artist and audience, which—without toting along a professional sound engineer to record a series of shows—can seem an almost insurmountable challenge.