Now available for pre-order, in stores November 12, 2024:
Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking and Street Music
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Recent writing by (and about) Cary Baker:
About
NPR Morning Edition: A New Book Explores
a Hundred Years ofd Busking History
Street Sounds: Cary Baker’s Adventures in Busking
The Reading Room: New Book Celebrates Street Singing Traditions
‘Down on the Corner’ is a A Book About How Busking and Street Music
Became the Soundtrack of Our Cities
Review: Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
Cary Baker: Down On The Corner – Adventures in Busking and Street Music
Independent Music in its Purest Form: Buskers, street musicians celebrated in new book
‘Down on the Corner’ Book Tells the Story of Busking & Street Music
Book Review: ’Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music’
Veteran Music Publicist Cary Baker to Retire After 42 Years
Cary Baker: An Artist’s Artist
Carpop Interview with Cary Baker
Big Conversations, Little Bar – Guest: Cary Baker, Music Historian & Publicist
Never-Before-Seen Photos of Blues Legends From the ’70s
AllMusic liner notes and production credits
Discogs liner notes and production credits
By
Fantastic Negrito: Power in Not Caring – Exclusive Book Excerpt
Read An Advance Excerpt From Cary Baker’s Book Down On The Corner
Desert Dust and Wanderlust Draw Musicians to California’s High Desert
The Bangles: With ‘All Over the Place,’ the Heroines Take the Plunge
R.E.M.’s ‘Document’: Not the End of the World, But the End of an Era
Lou Reed’s ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Animal’: Behind the Scenes
Willie Dixon: ‘Blues is the Facts of Life’
Cheap Trick’s ‘In Color’: The Radio-Ready Sophomore LP That Put Them on the Map
Cheap Trick’s ‘Heaven Tonight’: They Just Seemed a Little Weird
Fine Young Cannibals’ ‘The Raw & the Cooked’: For One Year, They Drove Us Crazy
Edgar Winter’s ‘They Only Come Out at Night’: The Story Behind the LP and Its Monster Hit
Rockabilly libertine Harry Glenn tells full story of Mar-Vel Records
‘Electric Mud’: When Muddy Waters Went Psychedelic
Bob Koester speaks about Delmark Records and the Jazz Record Mart
When The Smithereens Turned It Up to ’11’
The Blasters’ Eponymous 1981 LP: Roots Music Finds Its Place in the Punk Revolution
Bev Bevan of ELO Remembers ‘A New World Record’: “Jeff Lynne at His Most Brilliant.’
A Tribute to MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer