I can not tell each of you thank you enough. I am grateful to have you as part of the Southern Fellow family. I have not walked on this music and culinary path alone. We have always done it as a family.  Our next artist on Feed the Band has felt like family since our very first conversation.

Kaitlyn Baker is a multifaceted country music artist that sang her way through the hills of Virginia and landed in Nashville. Some people lose their connection to home in the pursuit of bright lights, but Kaitlyn will always be a small town girl at her core. Small towns were a big part of our conversation and is reflected passionately throughout her music with that sweet, twangy voice of hers.

I have had many conversations with so many artists during the past year. None of which I have felt such a feeling of home than with Kaitlyn Baker. At times, it felt she was going to call me out on some small town craziness that happened when we were kids. We shared many stories together that are truly the roots of real southern life. There were many good stories, but a couple topics really pulled at both of our heartstrings.

Kaitlyn and I both have had very close friends lose their lives in accidents caused by drunk drivers.  She turned her pain into action by supporting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and wrote “Blackbird” in honor of her bandmate. Loss quickly turned to love when her song “I Will” came to the conversation. This gem in my opinion is one of the best country love songs in the past decade. It reflects love in so many directions. For me, it reflected the love my parents have for each other. It could reflect love for you in so many other ways. Kaitlyn Baker made magic with “I Will”. Kaitlyn Baker is what a country artist should be. She is more than another pretty face in the world of music. She tells real stories about real people. Those stories easily reflect the lives of all who call Southern Fellow home.