Ali Barter Lyrics

Influences include: Jack Ladder, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Power, Warpaint, PJ Harvey, Loudon WainwrightThe easy path attracts a lot of people. Melbourne based singer-songwriter Ali Barter is not one of them. In these on-demand times of overhyped pop idols and dubiously talented Internet sensations, Ali possesses the natural chops to have garnered instant attention years ago. But the classically trained soprano, with a decade of choral experience, abruptly quit music in her late teens to become a self-proclaimed 'ragbag' and itinerant world traveller. Having been exposed to a pantheon of 20th Century musical genius in her upbringing - Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Patsy Cline - she credits the brilliant, notoriously... read more