Recording: Laura Barrett

Artist: Laura Barrett

Song: Who is the Baker?

Recorded at Monarch Tavern, August 8, 2019.

Laura Barrett - Who is the Baker?

Laura Barrett's Who is the Baker? comes a decade after her first album Victory Garden, so perhaps it's no surprise that several of the songs are themselves concerned with the passage of time. Never totally absent from music-making as other parts of life moved to the fore, several of these songs have been floating around for a while, though they gain some gravity when presented as a considered whole. And as Barrett reflected upon the person she was, though her trusty kalimbas were close at hand, most of the set was played at the piano (both solo and with a shifting cast of collaborators), reminding herself and the audience that the next chapter can always be new and different.