"Where Are You Now?" (coming spring 2010) Sarah Jean, vocals Bruce Kaphan, pedal steel John Mescall, cello Austin Faxon, drums
"Adding Up the Everything We Lost" (12/2008) Austin Faxon, drums
"Know the Rain Here" (11/2004) Molly Burke, vocals Jeff Russ, cello
"Patriot Acts" (09/2004) Chris Wargo, bass Eric Kvortek, vocals
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Influences
Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Jay Farrar, Son Volt, Neil Young, Kings of Convenience, John Adams, Ryan Adams, Christy Moore, Nick Drake, Tift Merritt, Mississippi John Hurt, Elvis Costello, Woody Guthrie, Replacements, New Order, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Greg Brown, Indigo Girls, Joy Division, Pogues, Wire, Leonard Cohen, Lemonheads, Jeff Buckley, Mary Gauthier, Arvo Paert, Mark Eitzel, Low, Moldy Peaches, Lou Reed, The Walkabouts, Elliott Smith, Wilco, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, Sinead Lohan, Pedro the Lion, Billy Bragg, Magnetic Fields, Band of Horses, Beck, Brer Brian, Gram Parsons, Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Taj Mahal, Teenage Fanclub, Stone Roses, Emmylou Harris, The Shins, Close Lobsters, Nick Cave, and in the name of all that is holy Will Smith.
California-based singer/songwriter Geoff Baker was born in Los Angeles and raised all over the place. At the age of 14, he borrowed a guitar and never really gave it back. He learned to play along with the records he loved in high school: The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Pixies, Joy Division, Wire. When he later immersed himself in more traditional folk music by the likes of Mississippi John Hurt, Woody Guthrie, Nick Drake, and Bob Dylan, he began trying to blend his various loves: furious finger-picking, folk urgency, post-punk energy. He likes his
dreams impossible, his drinks neat, his tunes a little bit catchy, and
his lyrics a little bit poisonous.
Geoff released the EP, Patriot
Acts, a collection of angry political songs, in 2004. Before the year was done, he had also finished the full-length debut album, Know the Rain Here. Time Out (London) hailed Patriot
Acts' tunes as "a fine line in protest song," and reviewers of Know the Rain Here praised its "flawless songwriting" and "emotional punch."
A 5-song EP, Adding Up the Everything We Lost, was released in late December of 2008, into the gaping maw of a fierce economic downturn, because what people really need when unemployment is spiking is bittersweet alt folk music. Geoff returned to the UK, Denmark, Holland, and Ireland for live shows in the summer of 2009 and is currently finishing the second full-length album, titled Where Are You Now?, which should appear in early 2010.
Adding Up the Everything We Lost (2008) 1. Indiana
2. Hope Is Not a Compass, It’s a Cloud
3. Gaslight (Oh Tomorrow)
4. None of This Is Real
5. Dolorosa
Know the Rain Here (2004) 1. Karma
2. Jackhammer
3. Slap in the Face
4. Dublin 1
5. Under the Oak Tree, Behind the Stone Wall
6. Black and Blues
7. Just Like ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’
8. Locket
9. Six-string Whispers
10. Two Wrongs
11. Curtain Call
12. How I Remember You Now
Patriot
Acts (2004) 1. The Ballad of Adnan Khashoggi
2. American Flags on Foreign Cars
3. Nobody Suffers But Us
4. Shepherd
5. What Our Children Is Learning
This Geoff Baker is not the same Geoff Baker from Ohio who makes vampire music.
HEY!! Songwriters Guild Meeting EVERY Tuesday at 7PM in the PAC 112 (aka Performing Arts Center). Come in and Share your music!! or come to just jam and have a good time
No one can make you laugh quite the way your friends can, and there's nothing like sharing a few funny friendship quotes with those friends take the time to make your day shine a bit brighter.
1. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer
2. "There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." ~ Benjamin Franklin
3. "Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy." ~ Spike Milligan
4. "A true friend stabs you in the front." ~ Oscar Wilde
5. "Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police." ~ Anonymous
6. "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body." ~ Jim Hayes
7. "Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods." ~ Esther M. Clark
8. "Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice." ~ Anonymous
9. "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." ~ Virginia Woolf
10. "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." ~ Thomas Jones
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
Hi Geoff.. Thanks for taking the time to listen! Great stuff you have especially "None of this is real", Soothing!!! I hope you have a wonderful day!! Have fun, Josh
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Hey Geoff ! Hope the rest of your Euro tour went well. I guess you will be settled back home again now. Please remember us when you are planning your next trip over here. Last time was great ! Steve @ Grapevine Norwich.
Ello Sweets. Hope this finds you well. I have been a work-a-holic hermit lately. Busy in the good kind of way. Landscaping, beautiful gardens, bathroom remodel, awesome chicken coup & 6 adorable hens!!! I am already up to my neck in peppers, squash, and delicious tomatoes, & eggs will be coming soon: 30-40 a week! I am ready to join the world of humans again. :) HUGS!
Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.
Heya Geoff, great tunes! Ya I was supposed to play with you last Friday alright but there was a last minute change of plan so I'm on this Friday instead! Hope it went well for you, see you out there another time! Happy Wednesday!
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