Western North Carolina-raised Wyndham Baird was inspired by hearing Doc Watson in concert at MerleFest at twelve years old and it launched him into Folk and Blues music. That path took him around the US and finally to Brooklyn, NY’s Roots music scene. He’s now a familiar face at Brooklyn Folk Fest and Washington Square Folk Fest as well as being part of the Jalopy Theater scene.

Baird’s debut album After the Morning was recorded at Jalopy Theater in Red Hook, Brooklyn, as well as in producer Eli Smith’s kitchen upstairs. Baird would play whatever came to him during the sessions. The album’s first single “Meet Me In the Moonlight, Alone,” features harmonies by Samoa Wilson and autoharp by Smith.

Some of the songs he’s absorbed via the Jalopy community, via recordings, and in his travel have made their way to After the Morning.

He says:

I need to catalog my repertoire. There’s so many songs. They’re all there somewhere. You don’t even remember that you know them.

Baird first heard “Joshua Gone Barbados” on a Bob Dylan bootleg while “Girl From the Greenbriar Shore” comes from The Carter Family. He first learned the album opener, Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December,” at his mother’s request.