A Bible verse framed on the wall of a bathroom in a Little Rock, Ark., Airbnb put American Aquarium's new album Lamentations in motion.
BJ Barham, the group's founder, frontman and mainstay, spotted the verse while he and his wife were staying at an Airbnb during a solo tour in January 2019. "That verse was up there on the wall and I saw the word 'lamentation' in it," Barham tells Billboard. "I was raised in a very indoctrinated family, Southern Baptist.
My dad was a deacon. That word itself is something I don't hear a lot in present-day language; unless you're actually reading that book of the Bible, you don't think too much about lamentations. "So I started looking at Lamentations, which is basically a letter from Jeremiah questioning the
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