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Mike Baker Music

Original songs about life, grief, hope, family, ADHD, faith, creativity, and staying human through the noise.

Every song starts the same way the books do — with a true story I couldn’t stop thinking about. Some of them just wouldn’t stay on the page.

Play this first Find a song for tonight

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Song finder

What do you need tonight?

Don’t browse forty covers. Tell me where your head is.

My head won’t shut off

I need some hope

I’m trying to show up for someone I love

Take me to the beginning

Give me something from the weird part of Mike’s brain

What came out most recently?

Everything, oldest to newest, lives on the full streaming page.

Mike Baker outdoors in North Idaho

The short answer

Why the hell is a healthcare CEO making music?

Because some stories refuse to behave.

I spend my days in healthcare leadership. I write books. I advocate. Somewhere in the middle of all that, songs started showing up. Not because I needed another title. Because a few true stories needed melody before they would leave me alone.

The tools are new. The voice is still mine.

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Mike Baker Essentials

If you’ve never heard Mike Baker before, start here. Five songs, in the order I’d hand them to you.

  1. Don’t Lose Your Smile Single The first song I built completely from scratch, while learning guitar one chord at a time.
  2. I’ll Stand With Her Single A song for warriors everywhere — written out of the same place the endometriosis work comes from.
  3. This One’s For Me From A Song Nobody Hears The closing track on the quietest record in the catalog.
  4. Borrow Mine Single A standalone single, not on any album.
  5. Stronger than the Storm From Backroad Shadows Track seven on the small-town record.

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All Of This Is Us by Mike Baker

Out now

All Of This Is Us

Single · 2026 · The most recent release on Mike’s artist page

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The other half of the work

Stories behind the songs

Most of these songs have a book, an essay or an advocacy fight standing behind them. Here is which is which.

  1. 01

    I’ll Stand With Her

    A song for warriors everywhere — written out of the same place the endometriosis work comes from.

    Hear the song Explore the advocacy

  2. 02

    Side Quest

    The next chapter in the ADHD run, alongside the Beautifully Unfocused book — a brain that wakes up with too many tabs open, set to music instead of prose.

    Hear the album See the book

  3. 03

    The Optimist’s Way

    Six songs written alongside the book of the same name — hope with its eyes open, in the seasons that make optimism hard.

    See the book Hear the soundtrack

  4. 04

    Beyond the Shadows

    The first one I let out, back when I was still figuring out whether any of this belonged outside my own head. It didn’t stay there.

    Hear the album Every song, streaming

  5. 05

    Don’t Lose Your Smile

    The first song built completely from scratch, while learning guitar. Some of the music is Mike on guitar, learning as he goes; some of it leans harder on production tools. He’d rather tell you than let you assume either way.

    Hear the song Read where Mike stands

Reference

Everything, in one place

Eight to start with. The full catalog has 65 albums and EPs, plus the latest standalone single — 66 releases in all. The streaming page has the singles as they land.

See all 65 albums and EPs →

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New songs, the stories behind them, unfinished things from the studio, and the occasional track that may never make it onto Spotify.

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