Review --McHouston "Mickey" Baker
Baker, McHouston "Mickey" -- "Mississippi Delta Dues" (Maison de Blues) AYes, this is THAT guy -- the one whose hands you're probably seen demonstrating chords on instructions books since you were ten. "Mickey" Baker is a phenomenon--co writer of the hit "Love is Strange," then New York session man, Parisian resident-instruction-book-writer, and then a return to his first love, country blues. This collection of tunes goes from unbelievably good to strange and back. He does everything on it -- even arranges a string section to back him up on country blues (!). He hits the "strange" side with # 6 which has an arrangement that just had me scratchin' my head in puzzlement, but then he'd hit stride with Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues," or a J.J. Cale-ish # 12 and win me over completely. Most tracks mid tempo and good for morning mix. Baker's taken back his original moniker, "McHouston Baker" and puts out serious blues. Mystifyingly good for a New York session artist (grin). First Dion, now this. I can't take it anything longer. Keep it comin'!
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