Ron Baker (Kingsnake) · CC BY-SA 2.0

A singer-songwriter whose 2001 debut, Musicforthemorningafter, drew wide critical and commercial acclaim and established him as an artist who played most of the instruments on his own records. Spin magazine, in a 2021 career retrospective, named him one of his generation's best songwriters; he has continued recording into his twelfth album, released in 2026.