STEVE BASKIN
and the FOURTEENS
Steve Baskin is an Atlanta-based Pop Americana singer/songwriter. He's been in and out of the studio over the past year with his incredible band – The Fourteens – and has finished up work on his fifth full-length record.
The new record is called Love Is Hard and brings a grown-up perspective of love from just about every angle. Infatuation, marriage, family, community and losing someone close. With the help of the Fourteens, Steve drives further down the Pop-Americana road with the R&B and country styles that he featured on his Mind Your Step record. Smart, hook-heavy lyrics backed by a powerful and soulful band – guitars, horns, organs, pedal steel and rich vocal harmonies. Available March 2024.
Some accolades for Mind Your Step (2020):
Melissa Clarke of Americana Highways advised, “Mind Your Step is a must-have for anyone who fancies swaggery music with horns.” She went on to say that with Big Wedding, Small Divorce, he “has captured a unique slice of contemporary life in a musical whirlwind of truth.”
Glide Magazine premiered the title track and said: “Shining brightly with infectious Stax-style grooves and horns, the song is a soulful anthem that feels real and direct. Baskin’s vocal balance of Americana rocker and soul singer is a perfect fit for this R&B-laced tune bursting with organ, a powerful beat and a hard-hitting chorus.”
Dan MacIntosh at Skope Magazine says that Baskin is “a smart lyricist, and there isn’t a throwaway song on this album.” And that “Baskin deserves to be better known. He’s quietly creating a strong catalogue of songs. Mind Your Step is an album that’s easy to love, from the very first listen.”
“Steve Baskin is a smart cookie,” says Dave Franklin at Dancing About Architecture. “He knows how to take a whole bunch of musical genres, ones that already share a certain amount of musical DNA and finds the perfect way to dovetail them together so that they complement rather than clash, and the result is a great rock ’n’ soul record.”
Dead Rock Star, Baskin’s third release, was called one of 2015’s early best records by Absolute Power Pop and was featured on several best of 2015 lists by power pop journalists. His second release, Naked, was nominated as one of the best college rock albums by Just Plain Folks, a national indie music collective.
Over his musical career, Baskin has shared the stage with greats like Sam Moore (Sam & Dave), The Shirelles, Carla Thomas, Mary Wells, Percy Sledge, The Beach Boys, June Carter Cash, Don McLean, Cindy Wilson (B52s), Rob Thomas and others. And as his song states, he really did have Dinner with Lou (Reed) and he did meet J-Lo at the Garden.
THE FOURTEENS
The FOURTEENS are some of the baddest assed-est musicians in the South.
Roger Brainard | Guitars
Mary Gill | Vocals
Steve | Vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, mandolin
Geoff Gill | Drums
Mark Sobus | Bass
Mark van Allen | Pedal steel