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Sam Baker
Presented by: Empty Room Promotions| 0 | BUCKINGHAM: The Radcliffe Centre |
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| P | Saturday 20th October, 2012 |
| N | 7:00pm |
Event information
"Baker's lyrics are provocative and memorable, referencing the relationship between love and mercy, the commonalities among all people, and life's little struggles. They also reference other stories and songs common to the American songbook." - Kim Ruehl
In summer 1986 Baker boarded a passenger train in the Peruvian city of Cuzco. Moments later a terrorist bomb exploded, killing seven and leaving Baker partly deaf, his hand and leg mangled and suffering brain damage affecting his speech and memory. In 2004 he began his Pretty World trilogy of albums that would address the experience and, in the process, explore the lives of other characters that entered the song writing process. The first album, Mercy, sought to address the blast and the random manner in which some died and others lived. In 2007, Pretty World offered meditations on gratitude, obligation and beauty. Cotton, released in 2009 was the final part, an exploration of the price of forgiveness and the cost of clinging to anger, told through songs that pivot around the homeless and helpless, and of love found, lost and held together with tape.
With the trilogy of albums and ghosts of that time laid to rest, Sam is currently recording a new record in time for his UK tour. His work to date and live performances demonstrate clearly that since his miraculous survival he has become a great songwriter and is fast becoming one of the biggest underground Americana success stories of recent years. Imagine Steve Earle, Shane MacGowan and Johnny Cash jamming in a back street Texas bar when in comes Nick Cave and the spirit of Townes Van Zandt.
“How does he do it? Every time you play Sam Baker you think it's the best he's done - then you go back and play an earlier album, and guess what - it's the best he's done!! Sam has a way of either telling a story or just painting a musical picture of life in the real, can't wait for his next masterpiece”
Venue information
BUCKINGHAM: The Radcliffe Centre| 0 | Church Street Buckingham Bucks MK18 1ET |
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| > | www.empty-rooms.com |
| ! | 01296 748268 |
