As the '60s arrived, Barber became a disc jockey and featured performer on Houston's KIKK. He and his band, the Western Swingmasters, appeared on the station five nights a week until 1968, when he signed with the Nashville outfit Hickory. There he made his full-length debut with 1970's A New Star. While with Hickory, Barber charted four times, taking songs like Kissed By the Rain, Warmed By the Sun (1969) and Unexpected Goodbye (1972) all the way to the Top 30. Another Hickory single, She Cheats on Me, would later be recorded by Roy Orbison. Barber jumped to MMI in 1979, and penned the hit Everyone Wants to Disco. It was his last charting single, and Barber turned to other interests in the 1980s and '90s, including painting and screenwriting. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi