Down On The Corner

• Down On The Corner will be of interest to music historians of all ages, as it traces street music’s tin cup, open guitar case origins forward to the gig economy in which the economics of busking have become driven by social media, QR codes, and PayPal.

• Draws on interviews with performers including Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes, Mary Lou Lord, Poi Dog Pondering, Lucinda Williams, Valerie June, jazz singer Madeline Peyroux, Mojo Nixon, Satan & Adam, Ted Hawkins, Peter Case (recently the subject of an acclaimed documentary film), and The Old Crow Medicine Show.

• The author, Cary Baker, is a four-decade veteran music publicist with longstanding personal connections to countless journalists, DJs, podcasters, publications, radio stations, and events including SXSW, the Grammy Museum, and AmericanaFest.