Barbarossa is James Mathé, freshly-signed to Memphis Industries and about to go on tour across America with Junip. To celebrate and to leave us in no uncertain terms how much he likes Junip, he’s just gone and covered ‘Line Of Fire’.
Barbarossa’s own album is Bloodlines (Released 5th August), an album that draws on everything from soul men Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo and Levon Helm to Dirty Projectors and Sufjan Stevens. Check out a couple of tracks from that: