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| <br><p>Duck Baker was born Richard R. Baker IV in Washington, DC in 1949 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. His teenage years were devoted to playing guitar with rock and blues bands before becoming interested in acoustic guitar fingerpicking in local coffeehouses. Ragtime pianist Buck Evans was a major influence on Baker's developing interests, which by the time he moved to San Francisco in 1973 included piano rags, blues, old-time country, Cajun, bluegrass, and New Orleans jazz. This variety inspired the title of his first solo guitar recording "There's Something For Everyone In America" which was released in 1976. During the next four years, Duck recorded several more solo jazz guitar music records including one devoted to swing jazz, one to modern jazz, and one to Celtic tunes while appearing on nine others. He also released a book of fiddle tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar and toured incessantly throughout America, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He changed addresses almost as frequently finally winding up in Europe for most of the '80s. He returned to San Francisco in 1987 and then moved to Virginia in 1991. </P><p>Most of his more recent solo guitar recordings have featured his own compositions - an aspect of his work that has drawn particular praise from other guitarists. Even though Duck Baker's insistence on arranging and performing so many different styles of music on the guitar, from medieval European Christmas carols to avant garde jazz, has made him somewhat difficult for the press to categorize - he certainly has earned the respect of his guitar playing peers! A check list of musicians with whom he has been associated professionally (in performance or on records) would include blues men Charlie Musselwhite and Jerry Ricks, bluegrassers Tim O'Brien and Dan Crary, traditionalists Ali Anderson and Brian MacNeil, new music icon John Zron, rock legend J. J. Cale, and jug band king Jim Kweskin.</P><p>Duck Baker has also been a seminal figure and influence in the bringing of traditional Irish music to the fingerstyle acoustic guitar. Duck is one of those rare musicians who doesn't draw upon the repertoire of his chosen instrument for musical raw material, but rather finds ideas in the broader musical stream and then shapes them to the sensibilities of the guitar. From the application of that talent comes his acknowledged success at transcribing and arranging Irish fiddle, pipe, and harp music for the guitar. His memorable, but not widely distributed, 1980 album "Kid On The Mountain" outlined a stylistic approach that eschews any cosmetic prettiness of tone and focuses rather upon the possibilities of stark, open harmonies, and complex interwoven bass lines. That album was the first to introduce to many guitarists in America playable, solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements of some essential Irish tunes, a few of which include "The Blarney Pilgrim," "Morgan Magan" and "The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside." Though that album is long out of print, many of the landmark fingerstyle guitar arrangements found there have been reissued on various CD collections. Fortunately for aspiring guitarists, Duck has gone on to release numerous guitar tab books and DVD courses that teach his jazz, ragtime, fiddle, and Celtic solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements.<br></P></p><br>
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