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Music Monday – “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dreams” (“Angels” by Sam Baker – A Song for Bombing Victims Everywhere)

Sam Baker is an amazing songwriter I discovered while attending the Fred Eaglesmith Charity picnic in Alymer, Ontario in 2006. Part of what makes him so amazing is that he really shouldn’t even be here, having survived a bombing that killed three other people while riding on a train in Peru in 1986. That experience […]

¶ Posted 29 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, philosophy

Holiday Mix Tape – Day Five – "Baseball" – Sam Baker with Gurf Morlix

(I've talked about Sam Baker and his amazing story before.Check him out!)

¶ Posted 11 June 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “So many years, so many hardships/So many laughs, so many tears/So many things he cannot remember/’Cause they had 50 years He walks down to the ocean Bends to touch kneels to pray/He writes her name in the sand/Waves wash it away”

“Waves” – Sam Baker

¶ Posted 22 July 2024 § Family § MusicMonday § Photo § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, language, parents

Music Monday – “He walks down to the ocean/Bends to touch the water/Kneels to pray/He writes her name/In the sand/Waves wash it away”

“Waves” – Sam Baker

¶ Posted 18 June 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Border guards they waved us through/’Andele ninos’ they cried/Love was a Mexican pony/You and I would ride”

Happy (legal) wedding anniversary one day early, Shea! I look forward to celebrating our (ceremonial) wedding anniversary with you in a month in Mexico and then our reception/party wedding anniversary later this summer! This song has a lot of religious imagery and considering we specifically requested a non-religious officiate who only slipped up once at […]

¶ Posted 05 February 2018 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music, parents, travel

Music Monday – “She’s learning how to surf/Going with the flow/Peace out from San Diego/She is letting me go”

One of my favourites, Sam Baker, has another album that he just released last week. It’s already getting rave reviews from many quarters. “Peace Out” – Sam Baker

¶ Posted 26 June 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Music Monday – “For years they’ve been married/Not one day of trouble/Got two happy boys/Good luck/Daily double/Love to dance with each other/Say they live in a bubble”

I’ve written about Sam Baker before – a Texas singer-songwriter whose ultra-streamlined literary style and unique vocals have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen: Baker captivated me. His songs are closely observed narratives of eccentric and marginalized people finding meaning in seemingly defeated lives–almost like Leonard Cohen’s, if Cohen had been a Baptist raised in West […]