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Rayland Baxter

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For the making of his fourth album If I Were a Butterfly, Rayland Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. The follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Wide Awake, If I Were a Butterfly finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (Grace Potter, The Head and the Heart) and Kai Welch (Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull), slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia & Beatlesesque pop. In addition to working at Thunder Sound Baxter recorded in California, Texas, Tennessee, & Washington, enlisting a remarkable lineup of musicians: Shakey Graves, Lennon Stella, several members of Cage the Elephant, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin, and legendary Motown drummer Bobbye Jean Hall, among many others. In an especially meaningful turn, two of the album’s tracks feature the elegant pedal steel work of his father, Bucky Baxter (a musician who performed with Bob Dylan and who passed away in May 2020). Thanks to the extraordinary care and ingenuity behind its creation, If I Were a Butterfly arrives as a work of rarefied magic, capable of stirring up immense feeling while leaving the listener happily wonderstruck. Baxter’s debut release as a producer, If I Were a Butterfly bears a dazzling unpredictability that has much to do with his limitless imagination as a collector and collagist of sound.

Genres

: indie folk new americana stomp and holler

Total plays

403.8 million
Updated on 2025-05-03

Country

United States

Social media links

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Monthly listeners

747,631

Followers

173,208

Top Cities

  1. United States
    Denver
    15,570 listeners
  2. United States
    Chicago
    11,485 listeners
  3. United States
    New York City
    11,064 listeners
  4. United States
    Charlotte
    9,504 listeners
  5. United States
    Seattle
    8,776 listeners

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