Shannon Baker & Sometime Soon, Bluegrass, $15 Cover

Shannon Baker and Sometime Soon is familiar to bluegrass fans in Eastern North Carolina, but the veteran pickers using that name with her now are a new band.

“What she’s got,” says Alex Albright, R.A. Fountain proprietor, “is a band of super-pickers backing up her excellent vocals. She was still in high school when she first played out here, and you could already tell she was going to go places with her music.”

Describing the band’s genre as “bluegrass and classic country,” Baker adds, “we like to take new stuff, too, and make it our own with bluegrass instruments and break it down and do it more acoustic style if it’s a more plugged in style song.” The band occasionally throws in some gospel and blues for good measure.

The band played for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee earlier this month at the famous Station Inn. “I’ve gone a couple times by myself and sung one song with a few of my friends,” Baker says, “but it was the first time any of us had played there together. That was a big deal. It was the best feeling. Chris and Joe have both played on the Grand Ole Opry stage before. I didn’t know that they hadn’t played the Station Inn before because that’s kind of like the first step before playing the Ryman or the Grand Ole Opry for bluegrass musicians. Knowing that it was their first time, too, we all got to experience it together and it was really special.”

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