BAKER? HE"S IN THE HEAD. WHY?

Hell, Champion Jack Dupree would be good enough, add Mickey Baker and what you have is bona fide 100% click bait. Dupree was a pianist from New Orleans, and Micky Baker, one half of Mickey and Sylvia ("Love is Strange"), was one well used session guitarist. He's the guy, Baker that is, that I was actually hunting for. He was all over all sorts of records in the fifties and sixties, with concise licks and, almost without exception, a killer guitar tone. Dupree was something of a boogie woogie blues guy with just enough New Orleans feel that once you know he's from there you begin to hear it. The pairing is some good shit.

If I were to make any changes in Champion Jack Dupree And His Blues Band featuring Mickey Baker it would be to make it mono. The separation is just too, uh, separate. That's a problem easily solved by moving your speakers closer together. You headphone people are on your own.

Baker's playing with Dupree is decidedly more blues than the stuff he plays on rock 'n' roll oriented stuff, so I included a few of those so you get an idea of his versatility.

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Listen:
Champion Jack Dupree (with Mickey Baker) - Caldonia mp3 at Internet Archive
Champion Jack Dupree (with Mickey Baker) - Under Her Hood mp3 at Internet Archive
Champion Jack Dupree Blues Band featuring Mickey Baker - The whole LP at Internet Archive NOTE: In the right column, under "Download options" click on "VBR MP3 Files"
Some of Baker's other work:
Mickey and Sylvia - No Good Lover mp3 at RocknDog
Larry Dale (Mickey Baker: guitar) - Down to the Bottom mp3 at Mp3 Rockabilly
Joe Clay (Mickey Baker on guitar) -  Get on the Right Track mp3 at Rocky 52