Memphis Slim & Mickey Baker live in 1968
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Memphis Slim & Mickey Baker perform three songs together: 0:00 Rockin the House, 2:50 Animal in Me, 5:37 I'm Lost Without You. Rockin the House was first issued by Memphis Slim in 1947 and featured Willie Dixon, it changed a bit (Let me roll) since then. Animal in Me was released on the duo's 'Bluesingly Yours' album of that current year, 1968. I'm Lost Without You was first recorded in 1961 for the 'World's Foremost Blues Singer' album. Filmed at Le plateau de Bouton Rouge, 1968
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis...
Mickey Baker was of 'Mickey & Sylvia', her wrote and recorded the original 'Love Is Strange'. He was an in-demand guitar player, and played on the original versions of all these classics:- I Need Your Love So Bad, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On, Money Honey and Shake Rattle & Roll. He wrote a classic tuition book, 'Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar' - it's still in print.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_...
(Sylvia of Mickey & Sylvia was Sylvia Robertson, first a guitar pupil of Mickey's, later she became a founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records, financed by Morris Levy who was described as the Mafia's front man in the music industry. Levy was alleged to have kept most of Mickey's Love is Strange royalties. • Love is Strange- Micke... )
Both guys had moved to France - perhaps in the footsteps of Josephine Baker - like many jazz & blues artists they felt more at home there than the USA. So it was natural to do this French TV promotion for their 'Bluesingly Yours' album. The story of Mickey as recounted by Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records who worked with Mickey in the 70's, has just been posted here: • The Story of Mickey Baker
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After 56 years working his tuition books , I finally hear what Mickey Baker sounds like in live performance. Not Bad Mickey.
@fiddlerJohn
Жыл бұрын
I bought 'Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar' 60 years ago! I didn't even know a G, C, or D chord. That book taught me to play guitar. No teacher and no recordings: just that book. I didn't even know about using a pick so I only played fingerstyle. Wow!
@hoshisato2687
10 ай бұрын
Me too!
@jimmyhay47
9 ай бұрын
Me too. I owe him a lot.
@harvey1954
6 ай бұрын
Love is strange.
@uhoh007
4 ай бұрын
@@fiddlerJohn I just picked it up, played a few chords, and found this video :) Memphis Slim I saw in Alaska round 1980, but Mickey Baker I never heard of......till today :) I think I'll keep going with his book, with your afirmation, sir.
That 4th finger!!!!
Two of the Cooolest Cats!
what a gem my mum used to listen Memphis every sunday i grew up whit him
I met memphis slim back in 1984 in a blues club in st paul when I was with Willie Dixon he opened for us he was great. I had no idea that I would meet such great people being with Dixon-google Mike Morrison blues revue# thanks .
That there is a true musician.
@GazelyGaze
9 ай бұрын
Two true musicians?
Was hoping to see him play that 13b5b9 chord :)
@friedcash9815
5 ай бұрын
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Class as always from Memphis Slim
Hidden music treasures! That's what I love on youtube!
@aurelienfispejoff2775
Жыл бұрын
KZread est une merveille, malheureusement gâchée par l'avidité de Google et la stupidité des ayants-droits.
They don't make music like this anymore 😎✌
I been looking for this video for years
@GazelyGaze
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found it!
Thank you! This is a gem with many facets!
Incredible groove!
Damn!!Slim is Rockin’ that ivory!!!
Amazing
Very very good
Just read Mickey was a favourite for Poison Ivy. I came here for that.
Amazing!!!
Excellent !!!!
Cool blues!
The same Mickey Baker who wrote the jazz guitar books? Must be.
@charliesundown3180
4 жыл бұрын
That's him
@GazelyGaze
4 жыл бұрын
... and the same Mickey Baker that wrote 'Love is Strange' (as Mickey & Syvia), later covered and made a hit by the Everly Brothers.
@dr.know-it-all5148
3 жыл бұрын
the books that Randy Bachman learned the chords for "She's Come Undone" kzread.info/dash/bejne/p3ye0dybZ7S2iZM.html
@jeromewade4110
2 жыл бұрын
Baker was also one half the duo Mickey & Sylvia with Sylvia Robinson.
@erikweissengruber7675
2 жыл бұрын
I was trying to learn some Who songs. Townshend wrote that he learned jazzy chords and how to draw chord diagrams from Mickey Baker's books. Which I later found in used bookstores. And then I got Wildest Guitar on tape. Endlessly rewarding.
very nice
great
Memphis Slliin's voice and singing had to be about the best a man do - he would have been great with Count Basis. Too bad Willie Dixon wasn't around for this session.
horatio sanz at 2:30
Ummm dessert.......
Mickey looks like an old Jewish man.
@GazelyGaze
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of black slave girls had children from their 'owners'; they didn't have much choice. (One US president was rumoured to have fathered a quite white child with his servant.) In Mickey's case, I think his story is that his mother was a 'street courtesan', if there's such a thing - black women had to live by their wits. He never met his father, and was put in an orphanage at age 11 - he kept running away. Anyway, it's quite possible that his unknown father was Jewish.