Released 04/07/11.
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... but maybe the full breadth of Mickey "Guitar" Baker's history-making work just hasn't been brought to your attention, hmmm? 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...and even producing our very own Nick Garrie Hamilton....but that's another story...
Spinnin Rock Boogie - Bill Hendricks Orchestra Featuring Mickey Baker / Love Me Baby - Mickey Baker / Bandstand Stomp (Ho Ho Ho) - Mickey "Guitar" Baker & His House Rockers / Riverboat - Mickey Baker Orchestra / I’m Tired - Big Red Mchouston Orchestra / Stranger Blues - Big Red Mchouston Orchestra / You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale With Mickey Baker's Orchestra / Midnight Hours - Larry Dale With Mickey Baker's Orchestra /Shakewalkin - Mickey "Guitar" Baker & His House Rockers / Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale With Mickey Baker's Orchestra / Greasy Spoon - Mickey "Guitar" Baker & His House Rockers / Please Tell Me - Larry Dale With Mickey Baker's Orchestra / Where Is My Honey? - Mickey & Sylvia / No Good Lover - Mickey & Sylvia / Rock With A Sock - Mickey "Guitar" Baker & His House / Rockers / Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia / Did You Mean Jelly-Bean (What You Said Cabbagehead)? / Joe Clay / Runaway - Charles Calhoun Orchestra / I Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John / All Around The World - Titus Turner / Rib Joint - Sam Price & His Texas Bluesicians / Anna Mae - Brownie Mcghee / My Baby Sgone - Eddie Riff / Caldonia 56 - Louis Jordan / Country Boy - Tiny Kennedy / The Bear Hug - Mr Bear & His Bearcats / Worried Bout You Baby - Roy "Mr Guitar" Gaines / Pepper-Head Woman - Sqaure Walton / Stumbling Block - Champion Jack Dupree / Come Back Uncle John - Big John Greer / Hit, Git & Split - Young Jessie