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About Me

Jason is a Chicago based singer songwriter with a poetic and engaging lyrical style. His songs catchy melodies evoke the radio friendly pop of his youth, while his guitar playing and singing are influenced by his contemporary heroes like David Wilcox, Michael McDermott and Peter Mayer.After working for years in Chicago radio Jason decided to dedicate more time to his family, leaving his career to become a full time stay at home dad. Jason soon discovered that spending time at home with his two children afforded him the opportunity to also devote himself to writing and playing music more fully.Stretching Towards the Sun marks Jasonâ€™s first recording. Produced with the help of friends; Lou Carlozo, Dave Bowling and John Vaeth. The arrangements are sparse, relying only on Jasonâ€™s vocals and guitar, except for 4 tracks, that Vaeth provides bass for... -- CDBABY LINK for JASON BAKER: Stretching Towards the Sun --

My Interests

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Member Since: 12/6/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/jasonbaker
Band Members:
Influences: David Wilcox, Michael McDermott, Peter Mayer, Pierce Pettis, Harrod and Funck, Sam Beam, Richard Wayne Mullins, Jenifer Daniels, Luka Bloom, John Gorka, Walter Wangerin Jr. Christopher de Vinck, Annie Dillard, LOTR, Rain, the Sunrise, the dark, my children's laughter, and that feeling of unease you get when you are all alone and it seems like someone is standing behind you.
Sounds Like: all, and none of the above

Record Label: shoeless music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Open Mic

I am co-hosting an open mic at the Buzz Cafe in Oak Park. we meet from 7-9PM at the first Monday of every month. we get a really eclectic mix of performers, music, poetry, and even comedy. i...
Posted by Jason Baker on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:28:00 PST

new music

howdy I have a couple new songs on the profile today. they were recorded with a friend of mine back in January of this year... I have wanted to post a song or two from that recording session a long ti...
Posted by Jason Baker on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:05:00 PST

surgery photos!

holy crap! i have been trying to post this blog for weeks but have have had some serious myspace technical issues well anyway, i finally have photos posted from my time in the hospital, i was there fo...
Posted by Jason Baker on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:26:00 PST

Big Big Surgery

..>..>..> ..> i should have written about this before, especially since it was much easier to type before... anyway, I had serious spinal surgery back on May 22 (and on May 23 but that is a much lon...
Posted by Jason Baker on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:37:00 PST

Well Here I Go

I never quite thought it would come to this, but here I am, fears and all. Conventional wisdom tells me that a blog on myspace would be counter intuitive. who will see this anyway? who would want to? ...
Posted by Jason Baker on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:42:00 PST