Beth is a Missouri girl, born and bred, who sang her first public performance at the age of four in front of a rapt congregation. The song: “Zorro Was a Turtle.”
When Beth was fourteen her mother (a pilot who managed a small airport) moved a piano into the hangar for Beth to tinker on, but Beth soon discovered a beat-up old guitar in a storage locker and was hooked from the first strum. She wrote her first song soon thereafter and that, as they say, was the beginning of things.
Beth joined a band in college and they ended up playing at resorts and military bases all around the Caribbean for a few years. But the seasons changed and Beth took a job in the corporate world, where the pay was better but her callouses went soft.
And now, lo these many years later, she left all that behind and once again picked up her hollow core guitar and started writing songs again, songs full of a lifetime.
Now she has released the first five singles from her premiere album, “She’s Her Own Mistress”. Birthed and recorded in Missouri, Nashville and Georgia, it’s the sound of an artist in her fullness, made all the more special by her unique voice and fresh guitar style.
Beth Reid Bauman’s music is part folk, part pop, part modern troubadour. She doesn’t sound like anyone else, but she is certainly in the tradition of such personal American artists as Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Nanci Griffith and Sarah Jarosz.
Beth Reid Bauman, “She’s Her Own Mistress”, “10 Past 3”, “Born Wild”, “Spirits Dance”,“Gypsy Girl”, “If Only She”,and her latest release, “CLipped Wing”.