Sam Baker

Along with his raspy, almost spoken phrase vocal style and his literate, poignant, and carefully observed songs that grapple using the beauties, complexities, and little tragedies of the world, Sam Baker has very much in keeping with other Texan songwriters like Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Townes Van Zandt, and Guy Clark, although his method of narrative probably comes closest for an artist like John Prine. Baker was raised in Itasca, Tx, a prairie city southwest of Dallas and Fort Worthy of on Interstate 35. He was subjected to several music as a kid (his mom was an area church organist), not really the least which was his father’s assortment of nation blues performers. The defining minute in Baker’s lifestyle emerged in 1986 when he was vacationing on a teach to go to Machu Picchu in Peru. A terrorist bomb exploded over the teach and Baker was gravely harmed, losing the majority of his hearing and struggling serious accidents to his still left arm. He previously 18 corrective surgeries performed on him over another decade at clinics in San Antonio and Houston, as well as the consequent physical, psychological, and spiritual trip Baker experienced helped him type his tranquil and passionate watch of the globe. Baker had to totally relearn how exactly to play your guitar along with his mangled still left hand, and performing was extremely problematic for him due to his serious hearing reduction, but he overcame these road blocks to build up his exclusively hushed and silently powerful performance design. Baker provides self-released three critically acclaimed albums, 2004’s Mercy, 2007’s Pretty Globe, and 2009’s Natural cotton, which constitute what he phone calls his “Mercy Trilogy.” Baker’s 4th album, Say Sophistication made an appearance in 2013.