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!Perhaps the full breadth of Mickey "Guitar" Baker's history-making work just hasn't been brought to your attention? 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!
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