Sam Barber

Now that Sam Barber has your attention, he’s looking forward to holding onto it a while.

The 21-year old singer-songwriter from Southeast Missouri has already seen his career begin on a meteoric rise, and his upcoming debut album, Restless Mind, is set to send him into orbit when it drops on November 1.

Barber grew up in a town of 200 people, on a 400-acre farm, surrounded by a supportive family and with his grandparents in the next house over from his parents. Not long after, his mother caught him singing in the living room, and she told him it wasn’t half bad. Barber took that as a compliment and decided to give music a go.

He began releasing original music in 2022, including “Straight and Narrow,” a bedroom recording of a song he’d written when he was just 16. A powerful acoustic track about overcoming life’s countless hurdles, “Straight and Narrow” proved an RIAA PLATINUM-certified sensation, reaching #1 on viral charts worldwide while landing on such multi-format Billboard charts as “Hot Rock Songs,” “Hot Rock & Alternative Songs,” and “Hot Country Songs.”