Mickey Baker
In The '50s: Hit, Git & Split
CD
"Probably every cack-handed learner guitarist has at least had a go at the legendary 'Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar' and anyone who doesn't know the classic, weird guitar-tastic Mickey And Sylvia hit 'Love Is Strange' just hasn't been paying attention!
Perhaps the full breadth of Mickey 'Guitar' Baker's history-making work just hasn't been brought to your attention? Well, rejoice, because the definitive collection of Mickey's early world-shaking sides is now before you! As influential a stylist as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, as vital to the music as Ike Turner, as innovative in technique and technology as Les Paul, Mickey was the secret hero who defined the electric guitar as it now exists!
His work as a genre-creating sideman and bandleader, his Mickey and Sylvia hits (Sylvia went on to helm Sugarhill Records and launch Hip-Hop and Rap as a commercial force by the way!).....Mickey decamped to France in the mid 1960s, changing the sound of French pop. But that's another story".
Tracklisting
1 Spinnin' Rock Boogie - Bill Hendricks Orchestra feat. Mickey Baker
2 Love Me Baby - Mickey Baker
3 Bandstand Stomp (Ho Ho Ho) - Mickey 'Guitar' Baker & His House Rockers
4 Riverboat - Mickey Baker Orchestra
5 I'm Tired - Big Red McHouston Orchestra
6 Stranger Blues - Big Red McHouston Orchestra
7 You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale with Mickey Baker's Orchestra
8 Midnight Hours - Larry Dale with Mickey Baker's Orchestra
9 Shake Walkin' - Mickey 'Guitar' Baker & His House Rockers
10 Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale with Mickey Baker's Orchestra
11 Greasy Spoon - Mickey 'Guitar' Baker & His House Rockers
12 Please Tell Me - Larry Dale with Mickey Baker's Orchestra
13 Where Is My Honey? - Mickey & Sylvia
14 No Good Lover - Mickey & Sylvia
15 Rock With A Sock - Mickey 'Guitar' Baker & His House Rockers
16 Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia
17 Did You Mean Jelly-Bean (What You Said Cabbage-Head)? - Joe Clay
18 Runaway - Charles Calhoun Orchestra
19 I Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John
20 All Around The World - Titus Turner
21 Rib Joint - Sam Price & His Texas Bluesicians
22 Anna Mae - Brownie McGhee
23 My Baby's Gone - Eddie Riff
24 Caldonia '56 - Louis Jordan
25 Country Boy - Tiny Kennedy
26 The Bear Hug - Mr Bear & His Bearcats
27 Worried 'Bout You, Baby - Roy 'Mr Guitar' Gaines
28 Pepper-Head Woman - Square Walton
29 Stumbling Block - Champion Jack Dupree
30 Come Back, Uncle John - Big John Greer
31 Hit, Git & Split - Young Jessie
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