The London Folk and Roots Festival Presents 'Sam Baker'

Sam Baker grew up in the Texas prairie town of Itasca. He is a man of few words. Always beautifully chosen, and fully wrought. Words are placed like plants and objects in a Zen Garden. Baker turned inward, to relearn the use of his body and brain after a Peruvian train bombing almost killed him in 1986. It's taken years to heal. Time to reconnect. The road back was arduous, but it opened up new vistas in painting, poetry and music. Mercy, released in 2004, was the first in a triology of compelling albums with sparse instrumental and poetic delivery. It was followed by Pretty World in 2007 and Cotton in 2009. Baker’s pen is precise, cunning and original, often weaving humour with human suffering and tender beauty. Say Grace, his newest collection, was released in the summer of 2013.