Bob e Baker
I love everything about recording music! I love to write music. I love to play and sing. I love to perform music. I love to record music. And occasionally I love to mix music. I have even been known to produce other people's music. I love it all. Love it Love it Love it
(Pictured here with his beloved Ernie Ball bass)
4 Guys, 5 hours, 9 songs and 1 jam
On March 16, 2022, Bob e Baker & The Consummate Sidemen assembled at Radnor Recording (Bob's house) and made an album. All the songs are a single take (not necessarily the only one though). We moved on to the next one when we were "blessed off" by MW Hamilton, who ran the recording session for us. These are performances and are not produced. Even the mix by Mike Poole leaves the tracks as we played them.
This is real music, by real people, played in real time.
Past and Future
This was my last "record." Very fun, upbeat music--kinda rockabilly--click on the picture
as a Producer
Audrey Ball
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
get in touch
Address
PO Box 121991
Nashville, TN
Email
bob.e.baker@gmail.com
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Bio
Bob e Baker is a singer/songwriter in Nashville, TN. He was born in Frederick, MD (Fredrock), but left at 17 to join the Navy. Although he had dabbled with guitar and bass before, it wasn't until a shipmate gave him a guitar as he was leaving the military that he began to take music seriously. He spent the next 6 years honing his craft in bands and as a solo act before moving to Nashville, TN. There he attended graduate school at Vanderbilt and continued to play and write.
After a bunch of hit and miss and almosts encounters with the music industry, he decided to record his first album on his own. "Welcome Home" was the ironic title of this album. Shortly after it was pressed, Bob found out his sister had breast cancer. He immediately moved back home. Unfortunately she lost that battle and left behind four children whom he tried to help raise. After six years, it was clear that the "kids were all right" and Bob moved back to Nashville.
Upon his return to "Trashville" (as his friend Joe Bussard calls the place), Bob immediately recorded his second CD: "Love n Life" at Oceanway Studios Nashville (which he had helped build--if you know the place, some of his calligraphy can still be seen in one of the iso booths, if you know where to look).
Fast forward 5 years, a broken heart and a lot of hanging out in the pool hall, and you have "RESET"--the third offering. This was recorded in Bob's newly built studio (in his house) and turned out to be a fun, upbeat, almost rockabilly sound. The album cover is actually a shot of the old jukebox from the pool hall taken by one of their bartenders! The CD was mixed by Bob himself and released during the pandemic--when we all had PLENTY OF TIME on our hands!!!
Now the present: "Almost Live" is pretty much what you would think it is. It is a recording of four guys performing 9 songs and a jam--it just happened in the studio. These are performances--warts and all--but it is REAL PEOPLE, PLAYING REAL MUSIC, IN REAL TIME! Enjoy the classic, unadorned sound