Grounded in Music, a new Austin-based non-profit organization dedicated to turning underprivileged youth from the Boys & Girls Club on to music, holds its first benefit at Antone’s Monday with appearances from Adam Hood, Sonny Burgess, and Doug Moreland, among others. Former Sound Team bassist and current solo artist Bill Baird recently demonstrated some nifty guitar work for the organization. “I was playing my looping sampler and E-bow,” he recalls. “I got a bunch of gasps and one kid yelled out, ‘That’s tight!'”
This article appears in November 2 • 2007.