Richmond Magazine: Carbon Leaf
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Ahead of Carbon Leaf’s hometown performance in Richmond for Music at Maymont, lead vocalist Barry Privett sat down with Richmond Mag contributor Adam Cheek to discuss the band’s latest album, Time is the Playground, and the central theme of time throughout this project.
““Time became this strange meeting of the old and the new,” he says. “I pulled an old Post-it note out of my folder that I had written down, like 15 years ago, and it said, ‘time is the playground.’ I knew, immediately, that that was going to be the title of the album. It gave me my true North Star of the record’s theme: Time is the playground; this is what we have — and what are you going to do with it?” ”