Memphis Slim & Mickey Baker live in 1968

[@nadrad100]

Sublime.

[@ruipinto3499]

Good teachers are not necessarily exellent performers, but I love his book.

[@daviddoyle5538]

After 56 years working his tuition books , I finally hear what Mickey Baker sounds like in live performance. Not Bad Mickey.

[@fiddlerJohn]

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]

Me too!

[@jimmyhay47]

Me too. I owe him a lot.

[@harvey1954]

Love is strange.

[@uhoh007]

@@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.

[@Michael-ek8rz]

That there is a true musician.

[@GazelyGaze]

Two true musicians?

[@michaelsolomon6594]

That 4th finger!!!!

[@harrypalmer3481]

Two of the Cooolest Cats!

[@michaelmorrison8700]

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 .

[@votemiles]

Was hoping to see him play that 13b5b9 chord :)

[@friedcash9815]

🤣

[@MarkInLA]

Yeah ! I savvy that ! Was one of the chord shapes in the black and yellow book. Or, was it, say G7+9 full across, 4 stretched to the Bb and F ? ! Yes, I too loved that little book and grew from there.

[@dougthompson8226]

it`s also a 7 #9 :)

[@votemiles]

@@dougthompson8226 tritone sub!

[@ruipinto3499]

A very esquisite chord that we for years learned to use after minor7 😂 Nice to know people that also used his book as a Bible.

[@larryrider6603]

what a gem my mum used to listen Memphis every sunday i grew up whit him

[@bluesincolour]

Class as always from Memphis Slim

[@KeyserSoze685]

They don't make music like this anymore 😎✌

[@nikos8247]

Hidden music treasures! That's what I love on youtube!

[@aurelienfispejoff2775]

KZbin est une merveille, malheureusement gâchée par l'avidité de Google et la stupidité des ayants-droits.

[@crayhead]

Damn!!Slim is Rockin’ that ivory!!!

[@fkorekore265]

Just read Mickey was a favourite for Poison Ivy. I came here for that.

[@aaronbrown0417]

I been looking for this video for years

[@GazelyGaze]

Glad you found it!

[@kentinspacetime5378]

Incredible groove!

[@michaelmoss6110]

Thank you! This is a gem with many facets!

[@ACURAOCULTA]

Very very good

[@craigmccauley3972]

Cool blues!

[@SheFishes22]

Amazing

[@philippelebolloch6951]

Excellent !!!!

[@douglasthompson7464]

very nice

[@bmurray4882]

great

[@GuilhermeJardim]

Amazing!!!

[@thr3ddy]

The same Mickey Baker who wrote the jazz guitar books? Must be.

[@charliesundown3180]

That's him

[@GazelyGaze]

... 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]

the books that Randy Bachman learned the chords for "She's Come Undone" kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3nNoK2YbLaDj5I

[@jeromewade4110]

Baker was also one half the duo Mickey & Sylvia with Sylvia Robinson.

[@erikweissengruber7675]

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.

[@karlsonkab51]

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.

[@guitarplayer30001]

horatio sanz at 2:30

[@ErinsProjects]

Ummm dessert.......

[@factorybear5264]

Mickey looks like an old Jewish man.

[@GazelyGaze]

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.

[@dougthompson8226]

@@GazelyGaze his father was Scots Irish hence Mick

[@GazelyGaze]

@@dougthompson8226 Well that could make sense. Though I thought his father was unknown - wasn't his mum a courtesan/street girl? Wikipedia just says he was 'believed to be white'; I think I got that other info from an interview - aah, here it's said it was his auntie who was 'turning tricks' ...: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGeQho2GaMScmqM

[@dougthompson8226]

@@GazelyGaze his mother was a 12 year old african american prostitute working in her mother`s brothel..his father was a traveling piano player