BAKER STREET by Gerry Rafferty - cover by The Graystones

To us, and hundreds of millions of others the world over, Gerry Rafferty was one of the greatest artists of his era. Every song we cover is challenging, but this song was particularly so for us all!

We had to go up 3 semitones from the original key which posed difficulties playing the sax part which lost a lot of richness and weight for each note we went up. Izzy's voice was already at the bottom of her range so we couldn't go any lower. And Philip couldn't go any higher with the sax without it starting to sound like a toy. Philip learned how to make the sax growl for this song which helped with excitement... but we all wish the song were in the original key. This key is the best we could manage.

Welcome to Sock Session 7!

Behind the music:

We recorded this Saturday 23 August 2025. As usual, we set up the cameras and started rolling, and ran through the song 6 times in a row, one after the other, until there was a unanimous vote on the final pass. (good thing too, because Philip didn't have any more air in him - this song is a tremendous lung workout!)

We then added a number of things to the track including flute, percussion, some keyboard parts, some background vocals.

We hope you enjoy :)

Grayson - drums and percussion
Max - bass
Izzy - vocals and tambourine
Philip - sax and flute
Kyle - acoustic guitar
Ishaan - electric guitar
Harin - keys

And we wanted to give a MASSIVE THANK YOU to our good friend Jake from the UK who guested on this song and performed an AMAZING solo and ad libs!! We feel he deserves tons of praise and support and we would ask that you go and support his own channel (links below)! He's truly in an elite class as a musician and we grow as a band listening to him. He's also just a really sweet and humble kid and we're so blessed to have him in the Graystones family!!

(The audio in our live performances is overwhelmingly live and, on many videos, is 100% live. To some select songs, we may add layers of sound to enhance the overall song and sound experience. But the original live sound is the foundation for all our videos, and then we might decide to add/replace some parts, if we feel it would help to bring the song even closer to the original that we’re honoring - but always in service of the art! With love, The Graystones)

If you wish to send us mail, our mailing address is PO Box 24021, San Jose, CA. 95154

Here are Jake’s social links :

   / @jakekidguitarist  

  / jakesguitargram  

  / jakecollisson  

  / jake_guitarist  

We really hope you enjoy the music and that we're able to put a smile on your face!

With love,
The Graystones