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.. ..Straight from the heart and reminiscent of a smoky, French cafe. Guitarist & vocalist John Baker and accordianist Gayle Buckby create a seductive and potent world with compelling stories and lush instrumentation that carry the listener through elegant ballads, gypsy reggae and a lurching waltz in the rain at night.
John Baker is a storyteller - his songwriting is intimate, playful and poetic with an ambiguity that draws the listener in.
You will often see The Baker Suite perform as a two-piece, however they are regularly joined by John Aue on double bass and BJ Barker on drums. Other guest musicians include Paul Grabowsky (piano), Erkki Veltheim (viola) and Peter Raidel (horns).
New album, A Quartet for Car Horns and Brakes, produced by Paul Grabowsky to be released September 2009.
Festival performances include: National Folk Festival, Whare Flat Folk Festival (NZ), Adelaide International Guitar Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Barossa Vintage Music Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and Semaphore Music Festival.
Feature performances include a series of concerts in Kyoto, Japan; support performances for Francoiz Breut (France); Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter; The Audreys, King Curly and Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra. On the same bill as Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows; and Diesel.
" integrity, atmosphere and class" A. Sheerin/BJ Thomas, www.adelaidebands.com
"decadent, romantic and perpetually captivating" Steve Davenport, www.musicsa.com

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Member Since: 28/02/2006
Band Website: thebakersuite.com
Band Members: John Baker (steel and nylon string guitars and vocals); Gayle Buckby (Accordian and vocals); Guest musicians: John Aue (double bass), BJ Barker (drums), Peter Raidel(saxaphone/clarinet), Karen DeNardi (viola), Andrew Wilkie (vibraphone & percussion).
Influences: John Mclaughlin, Bert Jansch, Burt Bacharach, Gotan Project, Yann Tiersen, Miles Davis, Nick Drake, WH Auden, Ron Sexsmith, Sting, Jack Johnson, Francoiz Breut, FourPlay, Astor Piazolla, Damian Rice, Clare Bowditch, King Curly, The Beatles, Norah Jones, Radiohead, Yes, Bjork, XTC, Tom Waites, Wyn Bullock, Oliver Sacks, Calexico, Mama! Milk, Confucius, The Flood, Blue Nile, Jorge Luis Borges, Patrick White, T S Elliot, Charles Dickens, Paul Auster, Joni Mitchell, Santana, James Brown, Robert Johnson, Paul Cox, Dante, Crowded House, Gaston Bachelard, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report, John Milton, Michel Gondrey, Picasso, WB Yates, Gore Vidal, VS Naipaul, Akira Kurosawa, U2, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Campbell, Dorothy Rowe, Beck, Paris, Czech Republic, Budapest, DH Lawrence, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, John Sebastian, The Yearlings, The Huckleberry Swedes, Frank Sinatra, Ry Cooder, Stan Getz, Van Morrison, Jose Feliciano, Debussy, Bach, Terry Reid, George Harrison, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, The Mountain Goats, The Necks, Tex Perkins, Emily Dickinson, Paul Auster, Johnny Cash, Les Negresses Vertes, The Umbrellas, Richard Galliano, Sufjan Stevens, Prince, Jaco Pastorius, Bebel Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Elvis Costello, Haruki Murakami, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stan Getz, Cat Stevens, Paul Kelly, Lambchop, Chet Baker, Henry Mancini, Dean Martinez, Problem Pony, The Audreys and Poopy.
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Beautiful Life.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSDaLSensAI Hey,..that was GREAT!,...Uplifting song,..and great clip.Nice work dudes.Life in Adelaide is travelling nicely.We have a new cd out ,.early apr...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:59:00 GMT