James Lee Baker

​In 2020, James Lee released100 Summers – a full-length LP of songs centered around a theme of change. The title track reached #1 on the FAI Folk charts that month and went on to garner nearly half a million streams across platforms. Two of the songs on the project –Returning to Paris and The Last Cowboy in Hutchinson County – were selected for several nationally-known songwriting contests. 

He returned to the sessions recorded at Blue Rock Studios under the wing of Chris Bell and Roscoe Beck and recorded a few covers to round out a second cover project called Impressions, which was released in 2022. The single Morningside, a cover of John Gorka, charted #21. John Apice from Americana Highways said "Baker’s cover of Bob Dylan’s 'Just Like a Woman' is one of the finest I ever heard. He captures the lyric, understands it and possesses it as a first-class interpreter."​

These days, he's working on a new EP that shift directions into the modern landscape of Nashville Folk music, recording some moving and groovy tunes with Anthony da Costa. He will also be releasing a book of poetry that was birthed out of the collective catharsis and isolation of the pandemic.