Hello and welcome. If you’re reading this, it means you took the time to seek out this page, and for that I thank you. Here’s a little bit about me.

My name is Liam Bauman. I make music under the umbrella of indie folk. I was born in Florida in the summer of 1998 and lived there for 23 years before moving to Nashville, where I’m currently based. My parents and my older sister Alex are all very creative people, and they’ve always been my biggest encouragers when it came to music. Growing up, every car ride had a soundtrack. That’s where I was first introduced to some of my favorite songwriters—Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and Jackson Browne—as well as bands my sister showed me, like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance (hell yeah). My dad plays guitar and writes songs too, and he and my sister were my first teachers. Their influence pushed me to start writing songs of my own when I was about twelve.

I spent my high school years playing in hot garages with my closest friends, learning how to be in a band and slowly figuring out what music meant to me. After that band fizzled out following graduation in 2016, I started picking up gigs as an accompanying guitarist for singer-songwriters around the Tampa Bay area. I did that for a few years before deciding to start my own artist project. In 2019, I linked up with producer and close friend Andrew Boullianne, and together we made my first EP, Passing Through. It was a pretty stripped-back indie folk record made up of songs about longing and grief, written during a time when I felt boxed in by my past musical projects and isolated from my childhood friendships. I wanted full creative control, so I played every instrument on the record. It feels a little silly looking back, but it was something I needed to do at the time.

After that EP came out, I got really into recording. I bought a small setup and started making songs out of my childhood bedroom. Songs like Hotel Hallway and the Anyways + I’ve Been Hiding EP were big turning points for me writing-wise and helped me learn how to be more open and honest in my lyrics. Around then, listening to artists like Olivia Barton and Adrianne Lenker really helped me find a place of personal healing within my own songwriting.

That same room was also where I first started recording for other people, including my friend Emilio Gonzalez’s EP Hazy. Working on that project made me want to learn more about audio engineering, which eventually pushed me to move to Nashville and attend the Blackbird Recording Academy. The program was a great experience, but when it ended, I found myself wanting to step away from the computer and get back to playing music in front of people.

So I started touring as much as I could, driving wherever I was able and playing wherever someone would have me. Some of that time was spent solo, but a lot of it was with my close friend Taylor Raynor. As a duo, we played shows across the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe. We self-booked everything, made very little money, and spent way too much time emailing venues. It wasn’t glamorous, but it meant a lot to me and shaped how I think about sharing songs with people.

During that time, I went back to a group of songs I had recorded with Andrew just before leaving Florida. Four of them felt right for a new EP, but it still felt like something was missing. I met up with my drummer and friend Ethan Standard to demo a song I had written a couple of weeks earlier, and that song ended up tying the whole project together. That track became Big Hand, a song about trying to cherish time with family while grieving the loss of my grandfather. Ethan and Andrew Goldring both played huge roles in shaping that record, and Big Hand came out in the fall of 2023. It’s still a project I hold very close.

Not long after that, I finally felt ready to do something I’d been putting off for a long time—making a full-length album. Good Try is a collection of songs written over roughly the last ten years of my life, and it feels like a reflection of where I’ve been and how I’ve changed along the way. Ethan and I tracked the bones of the record together as a band with Mason Thomas on bass, and then slowly built the songs out from there. Over the course of about a year and a half, we brought in a handful of close friends and collaborators to help shape the record in ways I wouldn’t have been comfortable with in the past. Once the album was finished, it was mixed by Jason Bennett and mastered by Greg Obis. The whole process of this album changed the way I think about making songs for the better, and I’m so grateful for it. Make stuff with your friends—it’s awesome.

Good Try feels like a time capsule of different versions of myself—some I recognize easily, some I don’t as much anymore. It’s exciting and a little scary to share, but I’m thankful it exists. I hope that somewhere in these songs, you find something that feels familiar or comforting in your own life.

Thanks for being here.