The James Barker Band is a Canadian country group formed in

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, in 2015. The band consists of James Barker, Taylor Abram, Connor Stephen, and Bobby Martin. In Canada, they have four number one country singles with "

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", "

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", " Over All Over Again", and "

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". They are currently signed to Starseed Records.

Career

In 2015, they won the Emerging Artist Showcase at the Boots and Hearts Music Festival and the following year, they were signed to

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. The band's debut

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, '' Game On'', was released April 21, 2017. The band received two

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nominations for Breakthrough Group of the Year and Country Album of the Year at the

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, winning the second. In 2018, the band's song "

", cowritten by Barker, Gavin Slate, Travis Wood and Donovan Woods, received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination and won the award for Single of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. The band became the first artist to record a globally released

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session in Canada in November 2018. Their second extended play, '' Singles Only'', was released May 24, 2019. They would follow that up with the standalone single "

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" in June 2020, and the extended play ''JBB-Sides'' in August 2020. In May 2021, they signed a record deal with

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and Villa 40, and released the single " Over All Over Again", which became their third Canada Country number one. In October 2021, they released the song "

", which features American country singer Dierks Bentley. They followed that up with " Wastin' Whiskey" in 2022 on Starseed Records.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

Official website
* {{Authority control Canadian country music groups Musical groups with year of establishment missing Juno Award for Country Album of the Year winners Musical groups from Ontario Canadian Country Music Association Single of the Year winners