Rachel Baiman
{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}
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Rachel Darby Baiman{{cite web|url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/886223472 |title=ANNA JANE |website=ASCAP |publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers |access-date=February 2, 2025}} is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Biography
Baiman grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. She has described her father as a "radical economist" and her mother is a social worker.{{cite web|last1=Hight|first1=Jewly|title=Songs We Love: Rachel Baiman, 'Shame'|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526069220/songs-we-love-rachel-baiman-shame|website=NPR Music|accessdate=August 2, 2017}} When she was young, her parents took her to meetings at the Ethical Humanist Society of Greater Chicago. She moved to Nashville at age 18 to attend Vanderbilt University{{cite web|last1=Hayes|first1=Rudie|title=Dirty Dozen: Rachel Baiman|url=http://americana-uk.com/rachel-baiman|website=Americana UK|date=July 31, 2017 |accessdate=August 2, 2017}} She became an Illinois State Fiddle champion at age 17.{{cite web|last1=Bee|first1=Kate|title=Guest Review: Kate Logsdon on Rachel Baiman – Speakeasy Man – Beautiful and emotive bluegrass debut solo album|url=http://www.eartothegroundmusic.co/2014/02/12/guest-review-kate-logsdon-on-rachel-baiman-speakeasy-man-beautiful-and-emotive-bluegrass-debut-solo-album/|website=Ear to the Ground|date=February 12, 2014 |accessdate=August 2, 2017}}
Baiman is the co-founder of Folk Fights Back, a musician-led national organization that puts together benefit concerts and awareness events in response to the Trump administration. She also performs in the fiddle duo 10 String Symphony with Christian Sedelmyer.
She is married to George Jackson, a Nashville-based fiddle player from Australia.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-16 |title=Rachel Baiman On The String: A Fiddler Emerges As A Songwriter Investigating 'Cycles' |url=https://www.wmot.org/roots-radio-news/2021-06-16/rachel-baiman-on-the-string-a-fiddler-emerges-as-a-songwriter-investigating-cycles |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=WMOT |language=en}}
Her 2017 album Shame was produced by Mandolin Orange's Andrew Marlin.
Influences
Baiman has said her songwriting is influenced by Bluegrass and traditional music such as John Hartford as well as contemporary songwriters like Courtney Barnett.
NPR has said her music "captures the spirit of wry truth-telling" and Paste Magazine called her song "Shame" "a potent message from an especially powerful messenger."{{cite web|last1=Ham|first1=Robert|title=Daily Dose: Rachel Baiman – "Shame"|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/daily-dose-rachel-baiman---shame.html|website=Paste Magazine|accessdate=August 2, 2017}} Vice's Noisey highlighted her political songwriting saying "Rachel Baiman's 'Shame' Will Have You Flipping Authority off One Song at a Time."{{cite web|last1=Domenighini|first1=Annalise|title=Rachel Baiman's 'Shame' Will Have You Flipping Authority off One Song at a Time|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/rachel-baimans-shame-will-have-you-flipping-authority-off-one-song-at-a-time/|website=Noisey|date=May 25, 2017 |access-date=August 2, 2017}} American Standard Time said the record Shame is "iconoclastic folk that will be handed down in song and record for generations."{{cite web|last1=Jewell|first1=Sean|title=Rachel Baiman – Shame|url=http://www.americanstandardtime.com/music/rachel-baiman-shame/|website=American Standard Time|accessdate=August 2, 2017}}
Discography
Solo
- Speakeasy Man (2014), self-produced
- Shame (2017), Free Dirt Records
- Thanksgiving EP (2018), Free Dirt Records
- Cycles (2021), Signature Sounds Recordings
- Common Nation of Sorrow (2023), Signature Sounds Recordings
References
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External links
- [http://www.rachelbaiman.com Official Website]
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Category:21st-century American women singers
Category:21st-century American singer-songwriters
Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:Country musicians from Illinois
Category:Country musicians from Tennessee
Category:Singer-songwriters from Tennessee
Category:American women country singers
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Category:21st-century American women guitarists