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Lane Baldwin
6+ albums
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Lane Baldwin is a freelance bassist, bandleader, producer, arranger, musical director, songwriter, clinician and author. He is a former student of studio legend Carole Kaye and a twenty-plus-year protégé of iconic blues bassist Johnny B. Gayden of Albert Collins fame, who describes Lane as “one of the best bassists on the scene today.” Baldwin has served as a Musical Ambassador for Washington, DC, as a member of a select group of artists chosen to represent the US on various European tours and at cultural events. He is also a co-founder of “Low Notes for Nashville,” an international group of top artists formed to provide relief to musicians devastated by the May 2010 floods in Tennessee. Throughout a career that has spanned nearly thirty years, Lane has done extensive performing and touring, both as a solo artist and sideman, throughout the US and abroad. He performs with the band Deeper Blues, whose debut CD, 'Dig the Hole', was released in 2008. For Lane Baldwin, Deeper Blues was the culmination of almost thirty years of playing, studying, and living, the Blues. Lane has spent decades learning from – and often performing with – Blues greats, such as Johnny B. Gayden (Albert Collins, Alligator Records, et al), Pinetop Perkins, The Nighthawks, Paul Bushbacher (L’il Ed & the Imperials), Tom Principato, Jimmy Thackery, Johnny Copeland, Mason Ruffner, and many others. In 2008, having amassed an extensive catalog of songs, Lane stepped out front to lead what many called “the b
