MICKEY BAKER "Session Man & Performer" Vol. 4
Here is great collection of Mickey Baker's great work. (He just passed away November 27, 2012.) If you asked me, and I know you didn't, but if you did, I'd say Mickey "Guitar" Baker is the greatest guitarist in rock'n'roll history. Bob Quine agreed with me. (The Hound Blog)
Of all the guitarists who helped transform rhythm & blues into rock & roll, Mickey Baker is one of the very most important, ranking almost on the level of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The reason he isn't nearly as well known as those legends is that a great deal of his work wasn't issued under his own name, but as a backing guitarist for many R&B and rock & roll musicians. Baker originally aspired to be a jazz musician, but turned to calypso, mambo, and then R&B, where the most work could be found. (Allmusic)
Great article about Mickey Baker here:
http://thehoundblog.blogspot.com/search?q=mickey+baker http://home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/mgbaker.html
(many thanks to Marty Mellow, the original uploader of this collection)
track listing CD 4:
1. No Good Lover [Alt Take] - Mickey & Sylvia 2. Things Have Changed - Sticks McGhee 3. Pitiful - Big Maybelle 5. Is It Really You? - Nappy Brown 6. Stranger Blues - Big Red McHouston Orchestra 7. Fatback and Corn Licker - Louis Jordan 8. In My Heart - Mickey & Sylvia 9. Stop, Don't Go - Annie Laurie 11. I'm Getting 'Long Alright - Big Maybelle 12. Oh What A Babe - Otis Blackwell 13. Seven Days Blues - Eddie Mack 14. Real Humdinger - The 5 Pearls 15. So Many Ways - Varetta Dillard 16. I’m Gonna Keep My Good Eye On You - Mr Bear & The Bearcats 17. Don't Take My Whiskey Away - Wynonie Harris 18. Without Someone to Call Your Own - Amos Milburn 19. It Should Have Been Me - Little George Benson 20. Shake It Up - Mickey & Sylvia 21. Such A Night - The Drifters 22. You Gotta Be Good to Yourself - Dolly Cooper & The Wanderers 23. Salt Pork West Virginia - Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five 24. Women Are the Root of All Evil - Paul Williams 26. I Won't Cry Little - David & the Harps 27. Ghost of a Chance - Mickey Baker 28. If You Only Knew - Little Jimmy Scott
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Mickey & Sylvia - No Good Lover
Otis Blackwell- Oh! What a Babe
Louis Jordan - Salt Pork West Virginia
Shake It Up! - Mickey and Sylvia
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