After years of playing for everyone else, Steve finally put out his debut album, I Sometimes Think.


Steve had great help writing the record. Trey Hollingsworth, Steve’s longtime friend and bandmate wrote How I Feel and Where You Are and let Steve play a part in the words and arrangements.  Mary Dean shared a poem with Steve years and years ago that became Trip Begin. Tracy Carmen Fagan Brown worked with Steve on Bad Idea when Steve was still living in Asheville, NC. Hell, even John Lennon and Paul McCartney had writing credits on the record.


Steve played all of the instruments and sang all of the vocal parts on the album and then had Glenn Matullo (John Mayer, Shaun Mullins, Indigo Girls, Collective Soul) work his magic on production. Alex Lowe mastered the final mixes at Rodney Mills Masterhouse.


Paste magazine included one of the tunes - How I Feel - on one of its compilation CDs. Not Lame Recordings said nice things about the record and distributed it on its site along with CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon.com. Other folks, like Steve’s home town newspaper and Southern Fried magazine also had high praise for the record.


Go to any of Steve's live gigs or to CDBaby.com or NotLame.com to get a copy of the CD.  For downloads you can stay right here or go to digstation.com or iTunes.

What folks are saying about I Sometimes Think


Steve’s mom
I thought it was real nice.


Southern Fried Magazine
Steve Baskin hails from Valdosta, Georgia (ok, now he's from Atlanta). He is a singer-songwriter and usually, we picture coffee shops and tip cups with those terms, don’t we? But Baskin has a raspy, dark voice that gives everything an edge. “How I Feel” is very Southern Rock. “Where You Are” has a modern rock sound, in a very good way. Baskin calls himself “Adult Contemporary”, but if I were his manager, I’d come up with something else – he’s got a great rockin’ sound. Col. Tamar Alexia Fleishman


Creative Loafing
Power-pop aficionados looking for some new stuff from the deep underground, try out Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Baskin's new effort. All the touchstones are in place: grabby tunes, stacked (but not heavy) guitars, shiny vocal harmonies. --ES


Not Lame Recordings
Excellent singer/songwriter acoustically grounded pop that reminds me a lot of early 90's Soul Asylum when they were doing that commercial "Runaway Train" thing. Baskin has solid power pop roots being in Atlanta's great 90s band, The Hippycrickets. This is the sound of sitting on the back-porch with friends and breaking out the guitars and having a nice BBQ and good local beer. Fans of Toad The Wet Sprocket, Josh Joplin, early John Mayer, Edwin McCain and Duncan Sheik check this out.

Very Highly Recommended!


Valdosta Daily Times
"I Sometimes Think" is a poppy blend of groove and soul with a nice slice of edge.

Some listeners may hear a Beatles influence in Baskin's song "Better (I Can't Sleep)" especially followed by his hard-hitting, slowed cover of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night," but "Better," Baskin laughs, owes more to a riff from the Atlanta Rhythm Section than it does John, Paul George or Ringo.



"It's the best music ever."  Snaek from iTunes



"Jack Johnson move over.  Wow . . . I've never been a real fan of this type of tunage.  But this won me over.  Each song has a completely different personality.  I love 'Lucy'.  Get the whole thing and play all at once and you'll see."  musemastermusic on iTunes



"I can't stop playing this CD!!!  The first time I played this CD I was blown away.  it is a rare treat when you can play a record from beginning to end and be utterly pleased with every track.  Pop perfection with SOUL.  I love the music of John Mayer, Keane and David Gray.  And Steve Baskin's music is right up there with those artists."  drummergirl07 on iTunes