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Baylin’s Magical Music
Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: October 2024
Singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin brings her deep, soulful sounds to Highlander Mountain House & The Ruffed Grouse Tavern at 8:30 P.M. Saturday, October 26. For tickets or more information, visit highlandermountainhouse.com/offers-and-events.
Jessie Baylin
Highlander Mountain House Hotel will be staging its latest Salon Series concert – a performance by Jessie Baylin in its cozy Ruffed Grouse Tavern at 8:30 P.M. Saturday, October 26.
Patrons are invited to make dinner reservations before the show during service hours 5:30 to 8:00 P.M. if they choose, then enjoy an incredible music performance by Kendell Marvel. Parking available on the property or street behind HMH. Seating for the show is first-come first-serve.
Jessie Baylin returns to Highlander Mountain House after just reissuing Strawberry Wind, now as a Deluxe Edition with 3 new tracks added to the vinyl, and the digital release includes four new songs.
Strawberry Wind not only delivers on a promise to create an honest album for kids and parents, but it represents what Baylin calls the “beautiful divide,” of juggling family life with her creative life, a difficult task by any measure.
“The divide in me is easy to feel because I invest 100 percent of myself into my family and often the creative get’s put to the side,” she explains. “So when I decided to begin writing for this album it just poured out of me.”
Baylin, who’s released five critically-acclaimed albums over the years, says the seed was planted for this project after contributing a cover of Harry Nilsson’s “He Needs Me” from the film Popeye to the Amazon original playlist Amazon Acoustics. “The song has a childlike sense, but the message is very deep. It’s magical, it’s dark, and it hit all the notes. I wanted to do an album that felt like that. It gave me the bug,” she says.
It’s quite a departure from her last record, 2022’s Jersey Girl, and 2015’s Dark Place, which NPR Music described as “stunningly thoughtful tenderness.” “Writing Dark Place began with a premonition of what was to come, and what followed was fear and many challenges that were put on me as a human being, so creatively I completely shut down – and Dark Place was a devotion to my pain,” admits Baylin. But the beautiful thing about life is that it will force itself on you whether you are looking for it or not, and according to Baylin, “it pulled me out of the darkness – leaning into my family was part of that and it showed me a new landscape and helped me get back in a forward motion.”
