John Baumann

A plain-spoken country singer who first built a reputation as a professional songwriter -- his best-known song is "Gulf Moon," which Kenny Chesney cut in 2018 -- John Baumann occupies an interesting place in Texas' Red Dirt country scene. Influenced by such iconic Texans as Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen, Baumann's lyrics have a literary bent, but his music is textured, alternating between spare, dusty troubadour balladeering and the shifting colors of his 2020 album Country Shade. A native of San Antonio, John Baumann wandered through the Lone Star state in the earliest days...