California-based singer/songwriter Geoff Baker was born in Inglewood, California, 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 furious finger-picking, folk urgency, punk energy, introspective honesty, and poetic lyricality. 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."
Know
the Rain Here will be re-released
in Europe on Cannery Row
Records in 2007, and the second album, What I Did When I Was Out in California ,
will follow in the spring of 2008. Also in the works is an EP tentatively titled Losing Bets .
Buy from CD Baby:
Know the Rain Here
Patriot Acts
or download at Apple iTunes: Know the Rain Here -- Patriot Acts
This Geoff Baker is in no way affiliated with the Geoff Baker in Ohio who makes vampire music.
