Rachel Baiman

Rachel Darby Baiman is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Biography Baiman grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. She has described her father as a "radical economist" and her mother is a social worker. When she was young, her parents took her to meetings at the Ethical Humanist Society of Greater Chicago. She became an Illinois State Fiddle champion at age 17.

Baiman is the co-founder of Folk Fights Back, a musician-led national organization that puts together benefit concerts and awareness events in response to the Trump administration.

Her 2017 album Shame was produced by Mandolin Orange's Andrew Marlin.

Influences Baiman has said her songwriting is influenced by Bluegrass and traditional music such as John Hartford as well as contemporary songwriters like Courtney Barnett. Vices Noisey highlighted her political songwriting saying "Rachel Baiman's 'Shame' Will Have You Flipping Authority off One Song at a Time." American Standard Time said the record Shame is "iconoclastic folk that will be handed down in song and record for generations."

DiscographySolo''' Speakeasy Man (2014), self-produced Shame (2017), Free Dirt Records Thanksgiving EP (2018), Free Dirt Records Cycles (2021), Signature Sounds Recordings Common Nation of Sorrow'' (2023), Signature Sounds Recordings