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Grant

About Me

Topical singer songwriter turned environmentalist who’s finding a new audience since his last public sightings in the 1980’s. ================================================== "IF BALDWIN WROTE FILMS INSTEAD OF SONGS, I WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT!! -Alan Smithee Hollywood Director ============================================================ ======================================= "A No Frills Rob Thomas". Why pay extra for looks, voice, and name recognition, when you can book Grant Baldwin for pennies on the dollar? Look, I gotta get off this call.....click" -Lee Steinway Personal Manager to Grant Baldwin. =================================================

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/07/2007
Band Members: Just Grant Baldwin, but his 1984 release of Those People had many all star artists that have gone on to make their mark.Producer: Neil Jay Young (writer of A Ships Tale) Engineer: Bill Thompson, Madman Studios Mix Down: Music Annex, Menlo Park Mastering: George Horn, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA Harmony Vocals: Dale Baetge (Google his son, Tenor Noah Baetge) Nedra Abono, Joan Cashel, Terry Marconi, Laura Lienl Banjo: Joe Deetz Pedal Steel: Joe Goldmark Bass Guitar: (Everyone Needs Someone) Joy Julks Cello: Marty Kendall Piano: David Klotz Fiddle: Laurie Lewis (yes THE Laurie Lewis) Guitar: David Rea(Everyone Needs Someone), David Rosen, Various tracks; Bass: Arnold Thompson Flute: Stacy Trevenon Synthesizer: Dave Zarnowski Horn Section: (Everyone Needs Someone) Peter Apfelbaum, Larry Batiste, and Dean Boysen. Arrangement by Janet Smith
Influences: Shel Silverstein, Tom Lehrer, Loudon Wainwright III, Tom Paxton , John Prine are influences in humorous stuff.Other songwriters that are big influences, but probably not evident in my music are Stan Rogers, Townes Van Zandt, Cheryl Wheeler, Catie Curtis, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Gamble Rogers, Arlo Guthrie, Mark Heard, Micky Newberry, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer; David Reilly, Uncle Bonsai, Tom Russell, Nancy Griffith, Gamble Rogers and Bill and Bonnie Hearne.Contemporary influences . David Grossman, David Roth, Buddy Mondlock, Peppino D'Agostino, Steven Key, Josh Ritter, John Palme and Chuck Brodsky, Jims Big Ego.
Sounds Like: Folky, but his teenage daughter is trying to give him an extreme makeover. This is still a work in progress.
Record Label: Humabar Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Odetta

"School taught me how to count and taught me how to put a sentence together. But as far as the human spirit goes, I learned through folk music." --Odetta, in 2005 NPR Interview
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:00 GMT

Fisher Investments Songwriter Connection

For about the fifth time this week, I heard a radio ad for Ken Fisher of Fisher Investments.  Then, today in the mail I get a large envelope in the mail from Fisher Investements. Ken Fisher is be...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:01:00 GMT

David Grossman on You Tube -"Open Mike The Movie"

Many of my calendar friends will remember David Grossman. (We grew up together at the Ghirardelli Wine Cellar in San Francisco under the supervision of Foster Parents Tim Dawe and Skip Henderson)...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Story of Stuff: Movie/Web Site of the Year

  http://www.storyofstuff.com If you think Gore's a bore, or your a bore when you try to talk greenor you want to know all of the important issues on the global front but no time to read books.or...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:34:00 GMT

My hero of the year: Ray Anderson

Sixteen months ago, driven by a deep concern of environmental issues, I left a comfortable life in Napa Valley and moved to the Washington D.C. area to work for a major non profit environmen...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:42:00 GMT

CD Baby -- A great sense of humor

I recently ordered some CD's from CD Baby of my friends Skip Henderson and Kristina Olsen.   Their shipping confirmation was hilarious.  Here is what it said: ..:namespace prefix = o ns...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:10:00 GMT

Spammers! Yuck

Some loser, who doesn't have the balls to use their own name, is sending crap to my "friends" web site..  Sorry, if you got it, but those who know me, know I would never do anything like that. Th...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:05:00 GMT