The Barr Brothers will release ‘Come In The Water‘ as the latest single to be taken from their superb 2014 album ‘Sleeping Operator‘.
“The event that inspired this song was the 1997 killing of seven young girls in the park on the Island of Peace, on the Jordan river, along the border between Israel and Jordan,” singer Brad Barr explains.
“It was designated a peaceful place, where Israeli and Jordanian kids could play together without fear. One day a Jordanian soldier open fired on a group of Israeli girls, aged 13 and 14, killing 7 of them. Israel was created in a moment of compassion, national interest, and delusion. ‘On the day that you were born, legions laid down their arms/On the day you lost control, legions leapt for your throat’.”
The Barr Brothers are set to play a sold out show at London’s Bush Hall on January 28th, and will then be back in the UK this coming April supporting Calexico.