{"id":563,"date":"2012-11-28T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=563"},"modified":"2012-11-28T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:22:10","slug":"mickey-guitar-baker-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2012\/11\/28\/mickey-guitar-baker-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey “Guitar” Baker Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mickey Baker, one of the greatest session guitar players of ALL-TIME died yesterday (November 27, 2012)\u00c2\u00a0in France at age 87.\u00c2\u00a0 He will always be remembered as the “Mickey” in Mickey & Silvia, but you rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rollers know how deep his guitar sound goes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6deep into records by The Drifters, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Lavern\u00c2\u00a0Baker, Ike & Tina Turner\u00c2\u00a0and even Coleman Hawkins.\u00c2\u00a0 Mickey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream early on was to be a jazz guitarist.\u00c2\u00a0 He went a whole lot further as one of R&B and early Rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go-to guitar gods. <\/span><\/p>\n

Along with being a renowned session guitarist, Baker also cut many solo sides for the Atlantic, Rainbow and Savoy Labels.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s HIS voice and NOT Ike Turner’s that’s heard on Ike & Tina Turner’s 1961 classic, “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine.”\u00c2\u00a0 By the early ’60s, Baker had grown weary of the American music scene, so he headed over to Europe and settled in France, where he would remain for the rest of his life.\u00c2\u00a0 He had come a long way from the day in the late 1940s when he asked guitar great Pee Wee Crayton if you could actually make a living playing guitar?\u00c2\u00a0 You can if you play it well and like no one else and that’s exactly what Mickey Baker did.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>
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