In my opinion, Mickey Baker’s The Wildest Guitar is in the top five of greatest album covers. I’ve stared at Mickey’s face, I’ve analyzed what his left hand is fingering. I’ve looked to see if his ...

Mickey Baker, one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and an influential guitarist whose work can be heard on hundreds of records, has died at his home near Toulouse, France.

An in-demand R&B session man who played with the likes of Ray Charles, Louis Jordan and LaVern Baker, he also co-wrote and performed on Mickey and Sylvia's 1957 classic "Love Is Strange." By Erik ...

Mickey Baker, an exceptional 1950s session guitarist who played on hundreds of recordings, helping to transform rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll, died Tuesday at his home near Toulouse, France, ...

Guitarist Mickey Baker, whose signature riffs helped push rhythm & blues into rock & roll, died Tuesday at his home in France of heart and kidney failure, The New York Times reports. He was 87. Baker ...

Mickey Baker, guitarist for the duo Mickey & Sylvia, died of heart and kidney failure on Tuesday at his home in France, The New York Times reports. He was 87 years old. Baker developed a genre-bending ...

Mickey “Guitar” Baker, one of the great session men of early rock ‘n’ roll and the famous male voice on the classic “Love Is Strange,” died Nov. 27 in Toulouse, France. He was 87. Baker became a major ...

Mickey Baker, an exceptional 1950s session guitarist who played on hundreds of recordings, helping to transform rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll, died last week at his home near Toulouse, France, ...

He was one half of the hit-making duo Mickey and Sylvia in the late '50s and can be heard on hundreds of records. Baker also wrote one of the most... Guitarist Mickey Baker Dies; Had Hits In The '50s, ...