My new single "Burning in the Stars" is out now!
Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Rob Baird began his career sneaking into juke joints and landing
between-set gigs at local clubs before he was old enough to drink. By his early twenties, he’d
scored a Nashville publishing deal, but an insatiable desire for creative independence
eventually led him to Austin, TX, where he spent the better part of the next decade grinding it
out on the road, releasing six critically acclaimed studio albums on his own label and sharing
dates with the likes of Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Billy Joe Shaver. Along the way, he
would earn praise everywhere from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal, land songs in TV
shows including Yellowstone and Nashville, and rack up nearly 100 million streams across
platforms.
Baird’s latest album, Burning In The Stars, is undoubtedly his finest, laying it all on the line
with raw, vulnerable reflections on hope and loss, faith and resilience, heartbreak and
redemption. The songs are lean and compact, cutting to the quick with surgical precision, and
the performances are similarly direct, fueled by earnest, melodic arrangements that call to
mind everything from Tom Petty and Bob Seger to Lucinda Williams. The result is a cinematic
mix of alt-country intimacy and rock and roll ecstasy that refuses to shy away from pain in its
pursuit of growth, a masterfully mature work of lyrical and sonic craftsmanship built around
the promise that it’s never too late to become who we’re meant to be.
