Mickey Baker "Rock With A Sock" 1993
...Baker's best work, though, was recorded as half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia...
..Their hit "Love Is Strange," as well as several other unknown but nearly equally strong tracks, featured Baker's keening, bluesy guitar riffs, which were gutsier and more piercing than most anything else around in the late '50s. Mickey & Sylvia split in the late '50s (though they recorded off and on until the middle of the next decade), and Baker recorded his best solo album, the all-instrumental The Wildest Guitar. In 1961, he took the male spoken part (usually assumed to be Ike Turner) on Ike & Tina Turner's first hit, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine." Shortly afterwards he moved to France, making a few hard-to-find solo records and working with a lot of French pop and rock performers, including Ronnie Bird, the best '60s French rock singer. He recorded only sporadically after the mid-'60s. Mickey Baker died at his home in Montastruc-la-Conseillère, France on November 27, 2012, at the age of 87...to be continued... - by Richie Unterberger
track listing:
1 Guitar Mambo - Mickey Baker 2 Riverboat - Mickey Baker 3 Love Me, Baby - Mickey Baker 4 Oh, Happy Day - Mickey Baker 5 Where Is My Honey - Mickey Baker 6 I'm Tired - Mickey Baker 7 Stranger Blues - Mickey Baker 8 I Wish I Knew - Mickey Baker 9 Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale 10 You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale 11 Midnight Hours - Larry Dale 12 Please Tell Me - Larry Dale 13 Shake Walkin' - Mickey Baker 14 Greasy Spoon - Mickey Baker 15 Bandstand Stomp (Ho, Ho, Ho) - Mickey Baker 16 Rock With A Sock - Mickey Baker 17 Old Devil Moon - Mickey Baker 18 Guitarambo - Mickey Baker 19 Spinnin' Rock Boogie - Bill Hendricks & His Orchestra 20 Chloe - Mickey Baker 21 Ghost Of A Chance - Mickey Baker 22 The Man I Love - Mickey Baker 23 Bobi - Mickey Baker 24 Hello, Stranger - Mickey & Sylvia 25 My Love - Mickey & Sylvia 26 Woe, Woe Is Me - Mickey & Sylvia 27 Can't Get You On The Phone - Mickey & Sylvia 28 I'll Always Want You Near - Mickey & Sylvia
Mickey Baker - Rock With a Sock
Mickey Baker - Guitar Mambo
Mickey Baker - Down To The Bottom
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