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Having studied Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar in my teens and learned my first G major-7 grips, I had no idea that he could play like an unhinged wild man.The Wildest Guitar shows ...
Mickey Baker, an exceptional 1950s session guitarist who played on hundreds of recordings, helping to transform rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll, died Tuesday at his home near Toulouse ...
Mickey ‘Guitar’ Baker, right, with Sylvia Robinson in a 1956 studio portrait. Mr. Baker, famous for 1956’s “Love is Strange,” with spoken flirtatious banter, made Rolling Stone magazine ...
An in-demand R&B session man who played with the likes of Ray Charles, Louis Jordan and LaVern Baker, he also co-wrote and performed on Mickey and Sylvia's 1957 classic "Love Is Strange.
NEW YORK — Mickey Baker, whose prickly, piercing guitar riffs were featured on dozens if not hundreds of recordings and helped propel the evolution of rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll ...
Mickey Baker, one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and an influential guitarist whose work can be heard on hundreds of records, has died at his home near Toulouse, France.
Mickey Baker has a well deserved reputation as an influential guitar player primarily through his studio session work for Atlantic in the 1950’s, and in the fusing of R&B with the then new rock and ...
Mickey Baker, whose guitar playing was influential in the development of rock'n'roll, passed away on Tuesday (November 27) at his home in Montastruc-la-Conseillère, France.
NEW YORK — Mickey Baker, whose prickly, piercing guitar riffs were featured on dozens if not hundreds of recordings and helped propel the evolution of rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll ...