Halifax-born guitarist Adam Baldwin is touring and has released a rivetingly heartfelt new solo album, “Concertos & Serenades.”
This is tough to comprehend now that Baldwin has so obviously – nay,– demonstrated that he is doing exactly what he was put on this earth to do with the rivetingly heartfelt folk-pop sleeper that is his new solo album, “
“Honestly, I think I do more talking than I do singing,” laughed Baldwin one recent warm evening, on a call from a ball field in Dartmouth to a ball field in Riverside Park with beers in hand on both ends. “I enjoy laying myself bare to an audience, a live audience or on record. I just find it keeps me accountable.
This would seem to be vindication for sticking with music and shouldering the burden of recording and producing the new record himself after almost giving up during the downtime that followed 2019’s “No Rest for the Wicked.” Baldwin credits fellow singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright with “kinda setting me straight” in a long conversation over dinner when they chanced across each other on the same Québécois TV show and encouraging him not to give up.
“I’m not sure I’ve ever really written a song in my life. I really, really believe that they’ve all come in with the waves or the wind or something out here and I’m just lucky enough to be in the right place to catch them honestly. And there’s an art to that, I think. You have to prepare yourself for when it comes in. I don’t know that I could be, like, the kind of person who schedules a trip to Nashville and sits with some people and tries to write songs. That’s not how I operate.