Wyndham Baird (from the album After the Morning

Wyndham Baird (from the album After the Morning

Wyndham Baird (from the album After the Morning available on Jalopy Records)  (by Bryant Liggett)
Wyndham Baird has done his Folkie homework. He’s ingested the Folk canon while admiring Doc Watson, The Carter Family, and Bob Dylan among scores of others, at times perhaps living the drifting Folk singer life, being one of those musicians more concerned with the next time he can play than the next time he’d have a bed to sleep in. That dedication to the craft seeps out of his debut After the Morning, a album ripe to be filed alongside any textbook for the genre, digging into old Blues and acoustic Gospel, train, jail, and mining songs.
Merle Haggards “If We Make It Through December” is a stripped down and simple opener, “Girl on the Greenbriar Shore” is given the Blues treatment, and “Waiting for a Train” is animated and catchy with its quick yodels. Another train song, “Engine 143”, is lovely in its sadness, while “Dark as a Dungeon” is played as it should be; dim, somber, and lonely. Eric von Schmidt’s “Joshua Gone Barbados” seems to be plucked from 1970’s Austin Outlaw era rather than its Greenwich Village beginnings, and the album closer in “She Chose Me” turns the tables away from a lonely, break up tune, instead being a thankful, ‘she chose me’ cut.
Wyndham Baird has made a Folk record that digs into Country and Celtic, an album that sounds like it could be 1964 coffee house or 2024 festival. A feather in the cap for this record is that if placed alongside the Guy Clark’s of yesterday or Todd Sniders of today, its worthy placement. (by Bryant Liggett)
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