Upcoming Events at 3TEN Austin City Limits Live
Thu Sep 1, 8:00 PM - Fri Sep 2, 2:00 AM
3TEN Austin City Limits Live
310 W Willie Nelson Blvd, Ste 1A, Austin, TX 78701
Community: Warehouse District
Description
Austin's own rising Americana singer-songwriter Rob Baird hits the stage at 3TEN Austin City Limits Live with songs from his recently released, critically acclaimed album 'Wrong Side of the River' (5.13). With special guest Thomas Csorba. Tickets: bit.ly
Event Details
Austin's own rising Americana singer-songwriter Rob Baird hits the stage at 3TEN Austin City Limits Live with songs from his recently released, critically acclaimed album 'Wrong Side of the River' (5.13). With special guest Thomas Csorba.
Tickets: bit.ly/RBat3TEN
$12 | All Ages
Doors at 8pm | Show at 9pm
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
"Rising country artist"; "a thematic journey from defiance to reflection to the hope for redemption" - NPR Music
"10 Best Songs of the Week" - USA TODAY For The Win
"Baird takes his traditional country to a deeper place, with sparse acoustic chords allowing his reflective lyricism room to breathe" - SPIN
"soul-quivering vocals" - Paste Magazine
"cathartic" - Rolling Stone Country
"the Memphis-born songwriter's journey of self-reflection" - American Songwriter Magazine
"honest rockers" - Texas Monthly
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BIO:
Rob Baird is done looking in the rearview. The Memphis-born musician had enough of being conceptualized, packed a bag and said no thanks. "I had no interest in competing with the country-pop stars and trying to dance around," says Baird, who left Nashville in the dust, booked a one-way-ticket to Austin and rediscovered his passion for intimate, no-frills songwriting. Working alongside producer Brian Phillips (David Ramirez, Penny + Sparrow), he's crafted his most accomplished work yet: Wrong Side of The River, a 10-track gut punch of blues-drenched, storyteller-crisp autobiography derived from
chasing miles of dreams.
On 'Wrong Side,' Baird pries open an emotional well that's long been kept tightly lidded. Finally freed of creative constraints, the singer-songwriter channels his longtime musical influences: the Stax-era soul seeping from the Memphis streets of his youth; those blues melodies he remembers hearing when he skipped study hall to see world-weathered bluesmen perform. "I let my guard down and let what was naturally there shine," he says, referencing a spellbinding string of songs that ulti
Tickets: bit.ly/RBat3TEN
$12 | All Ages
Doors at 8pm | Show at 9pm
************************************
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
"Rising country artist"; "a thematic journey from defiance to reflection to the hope for redemption" - NPR Music
"10 Best Songs of the Week" - USA TODAY For The Win
"Baird takes his traditional country to a deeper place, with sparse acoustic chords allowing his reflective lyricism room to breathe" - SPIN
"soul-quivering vocals" - Paste Magazine
"cathartic" - Rolling Stone Country
"the Memphis-born songwriter's journey of self-reflection" - American Songwriter Magazine
"honest rockers" - Texas Monthly
************************************
BIO:
Rob Baird is done looking in the rearview. The Memphis-born musician had enough of being conceptualized, packed a bag and said no thanks. "I had no interest in competing with the country-pop stars and trying to dance around," says Baird, who left Nashville in the dust, booked a one-way-ticket to Austin and rediscovered his passion for intimate, no-frills songwriting. Working alongside producer Brian Phillips (David Ramirez, Penny + Sparrow), he's crafted his most accomplished work yet: Wrong Side of The River, a 10-track gut punch of blues-drenched, storyteller-crisp autobiography derived from
chasing miles of dreams.
On 'Wrong Side,' Baird pries open an emotional well that's long been kept tightly lidded. Finally freed of creative constraints, the singer-songwriter channels his longtime musical influences: the Stax-era soul seeping from the Memphis streets of his youth; those blues melodies he remembers hearing when he skipped study hall to see world-weathered bluesmen perform. "I let my guard down and let what was naturally there shine," he says, referencing a spellbinding string of songs that ulti
