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the expatriate game duck baker ~guitar
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duck baker ~guitarHank Shteamer, Time Out New York / Issue 535: December 29, 2005–January 4, 2006 "Quite simply Duck Baker is the premier American fingerstyle guitarist" - Sing Out "He can go from the Mississippi Delta to the rings of Saturn" - The Village Voice |
The inspired combination of three great performers whose passion for traditional music and song has sustained them and their audiences for decades.
From Richmond, Virginia, Duck is one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. His repertoire ranges from traditional Irish music through old-time mountain music and bluegrass to blues, gospel, ragtime, swing and modern jazz. Baker has a reputation as a virtuoso but his performances depend as much on his humorous and informative stage manner as on technical bravura. "The ranks of American finger-style guitar players boast more than their share of eccentrics. The late John Fahey penned deliberately misleading liner notes; his protégé Robbie Basho assigned a color to each of the tunings he invented. Though not as willfully weird, Duck Baker is idiosyncratic enough to fit in. His range is striking: In addition to releasing several albums surveying classic jazz and Scottish folk songs, Baker has worked with radical improvisers like John Zorn and Eugene Chadbourne. Given the encyclopedic knowledge required to navigate such diverse endeavors, it makes sense that Baker has also worked as a music critic for more than three decades. As both a writer and a player, he is especially drawn to jazz, but he has never particularly abided by that genre's guitar tradition; he has said that he chose the finger-style method (most jazz guitarists use a pick) in order to better emulate the "boom-chick" left-hand rhythms of ragtime pianists. |
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