In the summer of 2004, Kevin Barnes was in need of some encouragement. After eight years and six albums, their Athens, Georgia-based indie band, Of Montreal, was just beginning to put together an audience. Barnes, newly married with a baby on the way, wasn’t sure it made sense to keep going.
“I remember talking to our booking agent and being like, ‘Maybe I need to quit music and try to get some other kind of job,’” Barnes, now 50, recalls. “And he was like, ‘Don’t do that. You have all this momentum going.
“I remember talking to our booking agent and being like, ‘Maybe I need to quit music and try to get some other kind of job,’” Barnes, now 50, recalls. “And he was like, ‘Don’t do that. You have all this momentum going.
- 2/13/2025
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
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