Joe Baxter is a long-suffering, little-known, hometown, pre-Americana, redneck, short-haired, red-faced, irreverent, irresponsible, quirkily well-read, bombastic yet insightful, mouth-breathing, loud-laughing, dog-loving, nap-taking, no-workin’, fish-catching, backroad-driving, liberal, Okie songwriter. The Lost Cause has been Joe’s band since the first configuration for the Grape Ranch Stage at The Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival in 2006.