A capacity crowd gathered for Tim Barry’s album release party on Saturday, Aug. 1 at Dogwood Dell. The free show was held at the 2,400-seat, city-owned amphitheater in Byrd Park. (Last week, Style ran a feature story on the new album, which was recorded at Richmond’s Spacebomb Studios, that you can read here.)
The enthusiastic crowd sang along to the new roots-rock songs off Barry’s latest album “Clear Blocks Ahead” and to an assortment of his well-known songs. Known to many for his work as frontman for legendary Richmond punk band Avail, Barry performed with a full band made up of his sister, Caitlin Barry, on violin, Lela Jane on vocals, Ed Trask on drums, Josh Small and Hayes Cummings on guitar and Sally Rose on bass…