Velvet Rut

from Straight Time by Bill Baird

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Buy the Full Digital Album
straight time cassette b/w rare random 'overtime' EP
Cassette + Digital Album
the b-side contains songs that will probably be buried here. RIP. they are mostly good songs.

Includes unlimited streaming of Straight Time via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Bill Baird creates, including 55 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now $8 USD/month or more
Full Digital Discography

63

releases

Get all 63 Bill Baird releases available on Bandcamp and save 90%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Soundtrack, Astral Suitcase, "Mumble Mouth" / "She's About a Mover", Atonal Choir File, The Children -- 1968 -1971 -- From the Very Start (bootleg), Great News, Eternal Space Bar, ∞ Infinite Eye ∞, and 55 more. , and , .
Excludes subscriber-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more (90% OFF)

lyrics

patchouli stains on the wall
tapestries just fall into a pile
dial my friend Paul
crumple up the velvet rut in style

tuesday 2 o clock
laptopcoffeeslop
not an empty chair
do these people ever work
or does it feel like work to just be sitting there?

hill country lifestyle land
plant a seed a house grows in your hand
ten houses in a row
with HomeDespot doors
from the $1.5 (mil)'s, this house is yours

hairless hippie who hates hippies
his throbbing dreadlock will take you with me
hairless hippie
"tight pant sissy," says oatmeal willie and wilford brimley and barton springs junky and campus flunky and south congress pompadour
"organic free range bore"

whole foods in workout gear
a beer to wash down everything that's wrong
a feel-good happy song
i dig good vibes but i think i'll hit the gong

hairless hippie who hates hippies
his throbbing dreadlock will take you with me
hairless hippie
murky bong wash
forgot to bathe me
"tight pant sissy," says oatmeal willie and wilford brimley and barton springs junky and campus flunky and south congress pompadour
"organic free range bore"

credits

from Straight Time, released December 1, 2017

license

about

Bill Baird Baird, Texas

"In the sphere of psychedelic music, Bill Baird is without a doubt one of the top 2 or 3 songwriters in the world" - le Village Pop

"Psych-pop master craftsman" -- Spin Magazine

"A testament to the failure of the American educational system" - Roscoe Mitchell

"...modern psychedelia at its finest" - Exclaim

"One of the last of the living rock n roll geniuses" - Tiny Mix Tapes ... more

billbillbillbillbill.com

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Bill Baird

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Bill Baird recommends:

Years and Years
by Sam Sanford

Perfect blend of diy aesthetic, new age calm, and the emotional openness of a Daniel Johnston our Arthur russell. Bill Baird
go to album

If you like Bill Baird, you may also like:

UNTITLED (Black Is)
by SAULT

supported by 20 fans who also own “Velvet Rut”

this feels important twigs
go to album
Hunger for a Way Out
by Sweeping Promises

supported by 14 fans who also own “Velvet Rut”

You had me at Kleenex/LiLiPUT meets ESG Tom
go to album
AIR
by SAULT

supported by 12 fans who also own “Velvet Rut”

probably the most hardest instrumental album i have ever heard in my 25 years of existence EB
go to album
Requiem for a Planet
by Beams

The Toronto-based sextet make moody, cinematic sounding music that blends psych-folk and post-rock. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2024
go to album
Mind, Man, Medicine
by The Secret Sisters

The Alabama duo's fifth album exults in dusty Americana, showcasing rich vocal harmonies alongside blissful folk instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2024
go to album