Sat, 7.30pm, Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, £13, 0141 204 5151; Sun, 7.30pm, Harbour Arts Centre, Harbour Street, Irvine, £11(£9), 01294 274059 The Austin-based singer- songwriter wears the history of his near-death experience in a 1980s terrorist bombing remarkably lightly, projecting hearty bonhomie between his brilliantly economical, atmospheric songs about tough lives, mismatched runaways, failed romances and ne'er-do-well scions of oil dynasties. Baker may well be able to talk for Texas, and a few more states besides, but there are whole movies in a couple of his verses and he sings his words like he's lived every one of them, in a cracked voice fit to break your heart.

Sat, 7.30pm, Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, £13, 0141 204 5151; Sun, 7.30pm, Harbour Arts Centre, Harbour Street, Irvine, £11(£9), 01294 274059

The Austin-based singer- songwriter wears the history of his near-death experience in a 1980s terrorist bombing remarkably lightly, projecting hearty bonhomie between his brilliantly economical, atmospheric songs about tough lives, mismatched runaways, failed romances and ne'er-do-well scions of oil dynasties. Baker may well be able to talk for Texas, and a few more states besides, but there are whole movies in a couple of his verses and he sings his words like he's lived every one of them, in a cracked voice fit to break your heart.