Emily Barker (born 1983 in Bridgetown, Western Australia) is an Australian … Read Full Bio ↴Emily Barker (born 1983 in Bridgetown, Western Australia) is an Australian songwriter and singer. In addition to a solo album "Photos. Fires. Fables.", she recorded two album as the-low-country. Currently she performs and records as Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo.
As a teenager, Barker was known to sing heavy metal and soul covers at high-school assemblies. She first entered the British music scene via the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2002, where she appeared with Rob Jackson, Boo Hewerdine’s guitarist. The success of this performance led them to form a band called the-low-country, in which Barker was the songwriter and front person. They released two albums (the first being in 2003), played numerous alt-country venues and festivals, and enjoyed several plays on John Peel’s show.
2005 saw the birth of Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, consisting of Barker and the all-female trio of Anna Jenkins, Jo Silverston and Gill Sandell who collectively provide backing harmony vocals and who respectively play violin, cello and musical saw, and accordion, piano and flute.
The band’s second studio album, Despite The Snow, was recorded in live sessions in a 16th century barn in Norfolk. Self-released in November 2008 on Emily’s own label Everyone Sang, the album again garnered much praise.
February 2011 saw the release of Almanac. Dear River followed in 2013.
* Official site
As a teenager, Barker was known to sing heavy metal and soul covers at high-school assemblies. She first entered the British music scene via the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2002, where she appeared with Rob Jackson, Boo Hewerdine’s guitarist. The success of this performance led them to form a band called the-low-country, in which Barker was the songwriter and front person. They released two albums (the first being in 2003), played numerous alt-country venues and festivals, and enjoyed several plays on John Peel’s show.
2005 saw the birth of Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, consisting of Barker and the all-female trio of Anna Jenkins, Jo Silverston and Gill Sandell who collectively provide backing harmony vocals and who respectively play violin, cello and musical saw, and accordion, piano and flute.
The band’s second studio album, Despite The Snow, was recorded in live sessions in a 16th century barn in Norfolk. Self-released in November 2008 on Emily’s own label Everyone Sang, the album again garnered much praise.
February 2011 saw the release of Almanac. Dear River followed in 2013.
* Official site
When Stars Cannot Be Found
Emily Barker Lyrics
I see Venus shine through a silhouette of trees
I feel so small tonight, I guess as it should be
We are made of stardust, oxygen and bones
So don't forget to look up, when you feel alone
Sometimes where you'll be, there the stars cannot be seen
Maybe in Los Angeles, maybe at home, maybe with me
Turn the lights off and you'll know, they are still there, they still glow
Turn the lights off, hold your ground, even when stars, when stars cannot be found
The night sky is mirror of the present and the past
All the glittering ghosts, gone too fast
All the heroes that left us, all the maps that we lost
There are no straight lines but we join the dots
Sometimes where you'll be, there the stars cannot be seen
Maybe in Los Angeles, maybe at home, maybe with me
Turn the lights off and you'll know, they are still there, they still glow
Turn the lights off, hold your ground, even when stars, when stars cannot be found
Here we are, a fleck on a marble
Here we are, together for a moment in time
I see Venus shine through a silhouette of trees
I feel so small tonight, I guess as it should be
We are made of stardust, oxygen and bones
So don't forget to look up, when you feel alone
I feel so small tonight, I guess as it should be
We are made of stardust, oxygen and bones
So don't forget to look up, when you feel alone
Sometimes where you'll be, there the stars cannot be seen
Maybe in Los Angeles, maybe at home, maybe with me
Turn the lights off and you'll know, they are still there, they still glow
Turn the lights off, hold your ground, even when stars, when stars cannot be found
All the glittering ghosts, gone too fast
All the heroes that left us, all the maps that we lost
There are no straight lines but we join the dots
Sometimes where you'll be, there the stars cannot be seen
Maybe in Los Angeles, maybe at home, maybe with me
Turn the lights off and you'll know, they are still there, they still glow
Turn the lights off, hold your ground, even when stars, when stars cannot be found
Here we are, a fleck on a marble
Here we are, together for a moment in time
I see Venus shine through a silhouette of trees
I feel so small tonight, I guess as it should be
We are made of stardust, oxygen and bones
So don't forget to look up, when you feel alone
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Written by: EMILY BARKER
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Defector09
What a great song - love the production! Going to be humming this over and over for the next few days. :)
SJ Stanton
I heard this song for the first time a couple days ago and it's beautiful. I live in the city now, but I remember growing up out in the suburbs and how it was much easier to see the stars. One night there was a meteor shower and I remember going with my mom in the middle of the night to a dark bridge off the highway to watch it. I was just a kid, and even being up that late was a treat. It was stunning watching the meteors fall one by one. I had never seen anything like it. The beauty of our natural world is just astounding.
Emily Barker
This is such a beautiful story of a beautiful memory. Thanks for sharing.
Richard Woods
Thank you for a great song. I live now in a puddle of light pollution. But we just returned from two weeks in west Wales. And there the stars reign supreme, the Milky Way strung across the sky . Back in the day, beside the tent, me and my girls would lie on our backs and count the Perseids on a hot August night. So this song is a touchstone for me.
Emily Barker
That is a beautiful memory. Thanks for sharing.
Chris Edwards
I just love it!
Gill Fraser Lee
Gorgeous, thank you.
Emily Barker
Pleasure! Thanks for watching :)
Ma Ba
I love this for those lyrics in a grand tradition!! and the illustration reminds me of how birds form their flocks. (Magnetic navigators?!) I suppose I stumbled upon this musician through Mary Chapin Carpenter - and to her because of a new friendly person trying to help me hunker down through Covid pandemic. All our unity in our shared mortality brought to forefront. In college, we read a lot of the poetry of young men dying of tuberculosis. Greatly heightened times of awareness. I am a third generation atheist. My dad loved astronomy and had been a WWII navigator. After the dog's last walk, he would point out a constellation to me. I never go inside at night without looking up for a few things that poke through, even in Brooklyn/NYC illumination cover. In college, for a moment in physics, I understood the nuclear chemistry formulas of the big bang and how we are all stardust. Wasn't that a Jefferson Starship song? That and being in the ocean give me a feeling of transcendence beyond my individuality upon this "mortal coil." (Besides Hamlet, that phrase was in a "Hair" song!)
Emily Barker
Beautiful. I love the feel of insignificance when staring at stars or ocean.