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photo by Britney Bollay Earlier, we covered The Barr Brothers  as they delivered an eye-opening set from Mellow Johnny's Bike Store at SXSW 2012.  Based in Montreal, The Barr Brothers, consisting of members Andrew and Brad Barr (of  The Slip ), Sarah Page and Andres Vial, are a folk quartet known for their sometimes ambient, sometimes in-your-face blues numbers and unorthodox instrumentation, relying on oblique instruments like antique pedal organs, a full-sized harps, bike wheels, and fishing lines(!).  Their debut, self-titled LP was released last September;  in anticipation of the album release, they toured North America throughout the fall, stopped by [...]