{"id":23377,"date":"2015-02-15T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T17:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23377"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T17:08:40","slug":"on-sunday-watch-sam-baker-perform-odessa-on-etown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-02\/on-sunday-watch-sam-baker-perform-odessa-on-etown\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday: Watch Sam Baker Perform “Odessa” on eTown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve been enamored with troubadour Sam Baker<\/strong><\/a> ever since we first laid our ears on his superb 2013 Say Grace<\/strong><\/em><\/a> album, which found its way to No. 11<\/strong> in our Top 15 Albums of 2013<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Baker<\/strong> mines a deep vein of storytelling songs featuring finely-crafted lyrics.\u00a0 It’s a vein that’s been worked so well by similarly-slanted predecessors such as John Prine, Townes Van Zandt<\/strong> and Tom Waits<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sam Baker<\/strong> easily fits into their good company.<\/p>\n

For another good sample of this gifted songwriter, check out the performance below (from Boulder’s laudable eTown)<\/strong><\/a> of his telling song Odessa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> In addition to telling a heart-breaking story of a wasted life, Odessa<\/strong><\/em> deftly melds in Stephen Foster’s<\/strong> song Hard Times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The song is off Baker’s highly-regarded 2007 album Pretty World.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Do yourselves a favor and give Sam Baker<\/strong> more of your listening time.\u00a0 The song’s worthy lyrics follow at bottom.<\/p>\n