Mickey Baker
Sign in to saveAlso known as Big Red McHouston, MacHouston "Mickey" Baker, The Loop, S. Gibson, MacHouston Baker, Mac Houston Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist (1925–2012)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Sugarite Coal Camp
- BEG METHOD BOOK BAKER
- Bottleneck and Country Blues Guitar
- Complete handbook for the music arranger
- Mickey Baker's Complete Handbook of the Music Arranger (The Personal instructor, 7)
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- 53,923
- Total plays
- 175,348
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Mickey Baker, also known as Mickey "Guitar" Baker (born McHouston Baker, October 15, 1925, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American guitarist. He was half of the pop duo Mickey & Sylvia, who had a hit single with "Love Is Strange" in 1957. He is listed in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Baker is also noteworthy as a session guitarist and guitar educator. Baker's session work spanned jazz, calypso, mambo, and rhythm and blues. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Micke
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Louisville
- Place of death
- Montastruc-la-Conseillère
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- Mickey Baker08.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1925-10-15
- date of death
- 2012-11-27
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- Commons category
- Mickey Baker
- name in native language
- Mickey Baker
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- birth name
- Mc Houston Baker
- pseudonym
- S. Gibson
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