Browsing: Busking

First book by music industry veteran Cary Baker traces development of blues, doo-wop, folk and even jazz and classical music on the streets. Features interviews with Lucinda Williams, Billy Bragg, Violent Femmes, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Mary Lou Lord, Peter Case, Poi Dog Pondering, Madeleine Peyroux, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mojo Nixon, Satan & Adam, and more, plus eyewitnesses of busking through two centuries.

So what led her to be standing on a street corner in Fairhope some 4,000 miles from Scotland?

“My spirits are lifted as I see tense faces soften and smile, strangers spontaneously dancing together, and children mesmerized by the music.”