I was born in Maryland and spent my first thirty years living there, first in the Appalachian Mountains, then on the Eastern Shore, and later in suburban Washington. After a year in South Carolina, I moved to Georgia in 1977. I soon met another park ranger who worked in Florida. She was a wonderful woman who became my best friend. then my wife, and soon the mother of our three children. I spent over eleven years working in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, and on the moss-draped sea islands nearby before moving to Atlanta.. In 2007, I retired from the National Park Service and a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting resources and themes in the cultural and natural history of the United States. It was a most rewarding experience. Today, I enjoy living in the rolling hills and woods of the Appalachian Piedmont east of Atlanta.
Baker was an extraordinary musician who blended jazz elements into his fiddling over a long and distinguished career, much of it with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Though never a big marquee name in the industry, he left a significant imprint on just about every fiddler playing in the last half of the 20th century. His New York Times obituary is here.
And here is Baker at his best playing Walking In My Sleep:
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