Sam Baker, Folk Alliance International 2018 #sambaker #folkallianceinternational #fai30 #listeningthroughthelens (at Kansas City, Missouri)

#footballz happy birthday to Sam Baker! You were a fine blocking dude who’s career was marred by injuries till you retired! You are also from Tustin, CA a place that I stopped at the one time I went to a Phish concert! I was in college and was maybe getting into Phish but that ended quickly because I did not enjoy that concert! Also I bought a t shirt and it was a pocket T and I was clowned unmercifully for it! That was the end of it for me and trey and the boys! Were you into Phish Sam? Probably not? I feel like if there is an nfl player who is into any subculture there are a million stories about it! Like that one backup lineman who was into Magic the Gathering! I saw like five videos and read three stories about it! Anyway I’m sure no one is being this obnoxious to you today, Sam Baker, because it’s your birthday! #footballzeroftheday #footballzbirthdays #sambaker #atlantafalcons #tustin #phish #pocketts #nflpressisboring

People of course want to know what my favorite moment at #fai2017, as I want to know yours too?!?! I don't have one, single, I can't imagine if you fully embraced it as I did that you could have a single one... But the fact that my mom was able to join me on Sunday for the second year in a row was spectacular for these reasons. 1) I was able to introduce her to #SamBaker He literally changed my life this weekend, with his conversation and performances. 2) Mom and I were able to sing together and we pretty much remembered all the words 3) We chair danced to an Irish Salsa fusion band, and it was awesome, and 4) to see her face light up when Billy Bragg played Rock Island Line. 5) When people she's never met come up and say "Are you the MOM!!!!! I love your conversations with your son that he posts on facebook!!!" and she can say "I tell him not to post those!!!!" and then laughs and laughs. She is a constant source of joy to me and I'm glad I could share the day with her. So here's a special set of experts from Sunday's FAI Folk Festival #momtalks : Me - "Mom, we have to hurry I really want you to hear Sam Baker perform" Mom - "Oh!!! Ok!!!" @ashleyjonesband - "There's Sam Baker now" [Sam Baker arrives at the top of the escalator we are standing next to, looking like a million dollars, guitar in hand ready for his 1:00 show.] Me - "Sam, I want to thank you for your show last night, your story and songs of what happened to you in Peru tore me in two." Sam - "Thank you for telling me that, it made my day." Me - "I'd like to introduce you to my mother, Mary" Sam - "It's very nice to meet you, Mary is a special name in my family" Mom - [great big smile] " it is in mine too" Sam - "I like that we have that in common, I mean I guess it is a significant name for a lot of people, but especially our families!" [everyone laughs] [We go see Sam Baker perform in a Woody Guthrie Tribute performance, and sing "This land is your land" it was epic" Mom - "Woody Guthrie wrote that song? I thought it was Pete Seger" Me - "I think Woody wrote every song, and we've just been re-arranging them ever since" (at Folk Alliance International)

Sam Baker's tools #austintx #yyclivemusic #singersongwriter #sambaker #ironwoodstageandgrill (at Ironwood Stage & Grill)

Yearly tradition. #sixteencandles #johnhughes #sambaker #jakeryan #thegeek #birthday #vscocam

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