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MP3 Steve Baker - December 07

Australian suburban country blues. Lyric driven, guitar voice pieces designed to at least appeal to Steve Baker.

10 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Alternative Folk, FOLK: Folk Blues

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Hey I’m a dentist! But I write and perform songs.

I thought from the beginning that being a dentist would be a good part time job to pay the bills while I pursued my real interests.

These have always been music, writing and theatre, but having four kids and a business has taken up a bit of time for the last 30 years.

Along the way I’ve done a fair bit of amateur theatre and also film and music reviews on a semi professional basis. But in January 2006 it suddenly dawned on me that all the rest had been a preamble to songwriting.

Songwriting, and the accompanying necessity, learning to perform the damn things, has been an obsession for the last two years.

I like a lot of my music, someone has to. I’m only been at the business for a while and it has been a difficult but rewarding journey. I’ve really enjoyed meeting and spending time with my fellow musicians. My wife, a fantastic visual artist called Robyn Baker, hates my music vehemently. Can’t win them all!

Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright 111, and of course Bob Dylan has been a huge influence, although I’m all over the place with music really. The Spazzy’s (an all girl punk band from Melbourne Australia) have been a recent craze. Nancy McCallion from The Molly’s is a great songwriter. I’ve recently come across Michelle Shocked who is also the real thing as far as I am concerned.

But really it’s important to find your own voice and I’ve never taken much notice of popular music.

I love The Mammals, SONiA (and Disappear Fear), Anne McCue, The Backsliders, The Barramundi Brothers, Bruce Cockburn, C.W. Stoneking, Darol Anger, Bela Flek, The Waifs, Fiona Boyes, Dutch Tilders, Fred Smith, The Greencards, Guy Davis, Jeff Lang, Molten Mike, Patty Larkin, Paul Kelly, Phil Manning, Richmond Fontaine, Rob Longstaff, Rory Mcleod, and Tiffany Eckhardt. Or at least some of what these people do.

And lots of others of course. You might like to look some of these up if you don’t know then and have some of that that most valuable of assets – time.

I hang out with bluegrass players when I can but can’t play competently with those clever bastards.

I don’t know what I like but I do know what I like to feel. I often enjoy feeling melancholy.

I am in despair generally with people and the stupid ways we treat each other and the planet. But I also believe that a caustic dry wit and a sarcasm is a fine way to fight off despair.

There are about 250,000 extra humans added to the planet EVERY DAY!!!!! That’s a plague.

Anyway I perform at open mikes etc, in Cairns Australia 2 or 3 times a week, learning the trade. Some people like my music. If you like my music you are probably not too mainstream and a bit of thinker. I like that.

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