Now available in stores and online:
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 of Busking History
Variety: The Best Music Books of 2024
American Blues Scene: Cary Baker Writes the Definitive History of Street Music
Street Sounds: Cary Baker’s Adventures in Busking
No Depression: The Reading Room: New Book Celebrates Street Singing Traditions
Tony Fletcher—Wordsmith: Busker’s Song: Down on the Corner
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
Spotlight On / The Tonearm Podcast: Today the Spotlight Shines on Cary Baker, Author of Down on the Corner
Book Review: Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music’
Lakeside Public Media (NPR Indiana):
Veteran Journalist and Music Industry Insider Cary Baker Talks About New Book
Big Conversations, Little Bar (podcast): Author Discusses
the Transformative Power of Street Music
Musoscribe: Review: Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
Variety: 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
Wikipedia
By
SPIN: Taking it to the Streets: Jesse Ahern Talks About Busking and Keeping the Tradition Alive
A Pessimist is Never Disappointed: "I started playing on the street...I just did it, just like that!" Peter Case Goes From Busking To The Nerves And Plimsouls In Exclusive Excerpt From Cary Baker's New Book
American Blues Scene: Fantastic Negrito: Power in Not Caring – Exclusive Book Excerpt
Tinnitist: Read An Advance Excerpt From Cary Baker’s Book Down On The Corner
No Depression: 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