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.Unbeknownst to him, tape was rolling on the Richmond, Virginia homecoming show which wrapped his 2013 travels, seamlessly capturing his set from start to finish. “I finished my tour cycle in Richmond, and about a week later, a friend was like ‘By the way, I did a four track recording of your show,’” says Barry. “I was surprised when I heard it: you could feel the ups and downs and I really liked it. Had I known we were recording something that would be heard later, it would be awful; I would sound scripted. I like that it’s an actual show from beginning to end and that it’s what I sound like without knowing I’m being recorded.”