THE JUST BARELYS
The Just Barelys began in 2000 as a recording project by Stephen Kelly. For the self titled debut Kelly invited a host of collaborators to contribute to individual recorded songs. The resulting record was well received, reaching #20 on Chartattack and #23 on the Earshot (Campus/Community Radio) national charts.
Eleanor King was one of those collaborators. Stephen paired with Eleanor in recent years and and recorded the new EP titled Top in 2005. The songs are simple yet musically peculiar. King plays drums, keyboards, and sings harmonies while (songwriter) Kelly plays banjo, electric guitar, bass guitar, accordion, computer, air-organ, and a variety of original/home-made acoustic and electronic musical instruments.
For much of 2006, the two were joined by multi-instrumentalist Stephen Evans for a collection of first-time-ever live Just Barelys performances.
In 2007, Stephen and Eleanor continue to perform as a duo, as though there is no such thing as stage fright.
