Today’s guests make me want to do this podcast outdoors. That’s because I’m join by Tim Lee and Susan Bauer-Lee from the band Bark. When we recorded this, they were just hanging outside on a beautiful Mississippi evening. And the way this band came together is really wild. Actually, the way the previous band, The Tim Lee 3, came together is wild. Bark was just the natural progression of that. Tim grew up with church music all over the place as his dad was a minister. And Susan’s first concert was The Monkees with The Who opening up! Or at least she’s been told that.Tim has been in bands since the 80’s like Let’s Active and Marty Jones, but took a decade off during the 90’s and went back to school. Tim reactivated his career during the early 2000’s. Susan quickly joined him after she woke up one morning and told Tim the she was going to learn bass guitar. In 6 months she was playing in a band. She did the same thing with drums. And oh yeah, she sings at the same time, too!Bark was formed to simplify things. But the music isn’t simple. It’s so good, it’s won awards! Bark is Tim and Susan. That’s really it. And they have a new album out, aptly titled Loud! We talk about the journey to get from Beat Temptation to Bark and what they’re doing differently, if anything, with this new album. Check them out at bark-loud.com to order the album and get their social media links. Follow them and us on Instagram; we’re @PerformanceAnx, they’re @bark.timlee3. You can support us, too! Go to ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety to send us coffee money. Go to performanceanx.threadless.com to check out our new design! And now…it might get loud on a beautiful Mississippi evening with Bark on Performance Anxiety on the Pantheon Podcast Network.

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