Now available for pre-order, in stores November 12, 2024:
Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking and Street Music
Order from Amazon here

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

A Young Man and the Blues

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

‘The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions’: When Clapton, the Stones, Winwood & Starr Helped Out a Blues Hero

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