Julien Baker

About

Julien Baker is a singer-songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Her first album, Sprained Ankle, was released in 2015 and made several best-of-the-year lists, including that of the A.V. Club and NPR. Her album Turn Out the Lights was released in 2017 by Matador.

Articles

A FAMILIAR STRANGER

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Her mother was characterized by her resilience but also her harshness; she had lived in a holler nestled in the East Tennessee mountains,...

By Julien Baker

DOING NOTHING

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. It was devastating to find how much I enjoy quiet. For a person whose life is consumed by music, it felt like blasphemy. The first time that...

By Julien Baker

EAU CLAIRE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. The pilgrimage to The Store is a ritual exercise of re-centering that anchors me in something common and universal; strangers converge at a...

By Julien Baker

FLIGHT RISK

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. It is easy to dismiss a person as ignorant; it is hard to recognize the ways in which I am still ignorant. My ego retaliates violently...

By Julien Baker

LEARNING MERCY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Violence as a concept is easy to oppose, but it is harder to condemn human beings tangled in the various machines of violence that permeate...

By Julien Baker

TINY CHANGES TO EARTH

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. I yanked down a shoebox of old letters, and a tiny folded sheet of paper floated out: a hand-drawn cartoon card that Scott had given me the...

By Julien Baker