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Sam Baker at The Blue DoorSam Baker is a songwriter, artist, storyteller and survivor whose songs find the extraordinary hiding inside ordinary lives.
He writes about people we recognize—a young welder finding love, a ditch digger supporting his family, a veteran trying to find his way home, a single mother with a car full of baby stuff, a widower writing her name in the sand. His characters are beautifully human: imperfect, resilient, funny, wounded and hopeful.
And in many ways, they are survivors. Like Sam.
His writing has earned remarkable praise. NPR’s All Things Considered called his work “simultaneously beautiful and broken,” while The Wall Street Journal dubbed him “The Bard of the Workaday World.” Lone Star Music went even further: “Maybe the most captivating songwriter in America.”
But Sam Baker is best experienced the way songs like these were meant to be heard—up close, in a quiet room, where every word matters.
And there may be no better room for that than The Blue Door.
Come listen
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