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Roman Candle Presents Rachel Baiman

Thursday 10th October, 7.30PM.
 
£18 Adv.

Rachel Baiman
 
St Werburgh's Parish Centre

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Roman Candle is thrilled to welcome Rachel Baiman to St Werburgh's Parish Centre on Brook Street, Chester, on Thursday, October 10th. Special guest Tom Blackwell.

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Tickets are £18 in advance from Grey n Pink Records or See Tickets.

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RACHEL BAIMAN

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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.

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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”.

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In contrast with her previous work, (Watchouse’s Andrew Marlin produced her debut album, Shame), Baiman was the sole producer of Common Nation of Sorrow. After recording for twelve days in Nashville with Grammy-Award-winning engineer Sean Sullivan, Baiman traveled to Portland, OR, where she spent two weeks mixing the record with famed engineer and producer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket/The Decemberists/First Aid Kit). For her new collaborative singles, she turned to friend and indie-pop writer and producer Clare Reynolds, known professionally as Lollies. “One thing I learned from producing my own record is that I love producing, as long as it’s not my own parts”, she laughs. “I thought it would be great to have another kind of collaboration included in these new songs, on the production side.

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The first In Collaboration single release, “Dominoes”, with Pony Bradshaw, was the result of months of musical collaboration. “I’d been playing and singing in Bradshaw’s band some, and on his upcoming record, and we’d always talked about writing something together. So this felt like a natural progression.” The song hit 100,000 streams on Spotify in it’s first month, and Wide Open Country called it “a gut wrenching tale that catalogs the tension between two people acting on their worst impulses, leading to a domino effect of fallout.”

 

"I've been looking for a new well of inspiration, something outside of myself," Rachel Baiman told Wide Open Country in early 2024. "Every time that you work with someone you admire, there's a lot of growth that happens from being around their creative process and seeing how they approach a song. It brings a new energy and perspective to my own work.”

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TOM BLACKWELL

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Now landed on Teesside after a meandering journey across all corners of England, Tom Blackwell emerged from the Manchester folk club circuit, where he discovered the country, blues and gospel music that would become the foundations of his work.

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Between 2010-2011 a succession of homemade recorded demo collections garnered somewhat of a cult following. In 2012 The Viper label of Liverpool (Edgar Jones) released a compilation of these tracks. The record received support from BBC Radio 2 & 6 Music.

After a tumultuous start to 2014, Blackwell found himself embarking on a 3 month pilgrimage of America. Armed only with a guitar and the clothes on his back, he travelled thousands of miles over rail and bus, before a chance meeting in Nashville with sound engineer Matt Wyman led to the recording of Tyrone The Gun. The album found critical acclaim and named as one of Country Music People magazine's albums of the year in 2015

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In 2018 he decided to undertake an archive project to document his early material in the barest of forms. The ‘Memphis Volumes’ were just that, hushed vocal and guitar takes captured in various Merseyside dwellings onto an old Tascam cassette recorder.

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His second official long player, Regency Cafe was released in the late summer of 2023

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A prolific writer with a visceral and dynamic performance style, Blackwell has been playing across the UK and beyond for the last 15 years, honing his craft both on and off stage.

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