Barry's first exposure to playing the Bones was as a child, in the sixties. A Bones player, Cecil Hiatt, had joined in with Barry's grandfather, Lue Berline, while Lue played the fiddle. As it turned out, Cecil had learned his Bones technique from a player in an old west medicine show. Several years later, it was Cecil who gave Barry his first set of Bones and taught him his first clicks. In the years since, Barry's Bones playing has taken him to more places and allowed him to meet more good people than he could ever have imagined.