Duck Baker

Duck Baker (Richard R. Baker IV, born 1949) is an American fingerstyle guitarist who grew up in Virginia. His acoustic playing ranges across jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, Irish and Scottish traditional music, swing and free improvisation. He has also written a number of guitar instruction books. In the early 1970s he moved to San Francisco and worked in its swing jazz scene, and he made his first album, There's Something for Everyone in America, for Kicking Mule. He lived in Europe from the late 1970s until 1987, when he returned to the US.