This concert is part of The Working Songwriter Forum.

David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he's dead set on making music for himself - for the sake of the music, and nothing else. “I love all the records I've made in the past,” says Ramirez. “But in making them, there was always the thought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me. I made both creative and business decisions with a goal in mind; a goal that often never came. This time it was all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.”

The Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter - whose career has seen six full-length studio albums, three EPs, countless collaborations, and an illustrious supergroup project in Glorietta—spent a season of rest away from his focus on writing songs. In the wake of the end of a long relationship, he wanted to prioritize processing his grief as a human, not as an artist bleeding onto the page.

“The last thing I wanted was to write a heartbreak record. So I stopped writing altogether, and I just waited until I saw my heart start coming back to life. I wanted the next thing to be hopeful and sweet and beautiful - a testament to music and my love for it.” Ramirez's new record, All the Not So Gentle Reminders, is exactly what he was waiting for, a 12-song album of dreamlike songs.

https://www.davidramirezmusic.com/

Common Nation of Sorrow, Baiman's 2023 LP, was called one of “The Best Albums of the Year (So Far) by The Boston Globe, awarded 4 stars from American Songwriter, and deemed a “Tremendously and remarkable record” by The Amp. On the heels of an album release year that saw her play more than 130 shows across the globe, Baiman in making 2024 her “Year of collaboration” with a series of A Side/B Side mini release projects featuring some of her favorite songwriters including Pony Bradshaw, Caroline Spence, and Nicholas Jamerson. If Common Nation of Sorrow was a novel, this year's releases feel more like short stories, just long enough to make you want more.

Raised in Chicago, Baiman made her way to Nashville at 18 with the dream of being a professional fiddle player and has since released three solo records and an EP, alongside session and side-person work with Kacey Musgraves, Kevin Morby, and Molly Tuttle among many others. As a songwriter, she has garnered a reputation for her specific brand of political and personal lyricism, which Vice's Noisey described as ‘Flipping off Authority one note at a time”.

https://www.rachelbaiman.com/

Rachel Baiman

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