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Duck Baker - Fingerstyle Guitar Music Legend

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.

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.

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.

About the Author

Peabody Conservatory trained guitarist Steven Herron helps people succeed at becoming better guitar players. His company ChordMelody.com features an enormous, unique selection of
jazz guitar tab
as well as guitar books and instructional DVDs by
Duck Baker
himself.

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Doyle Dykes - Fingerstyle Guitar Music Master

Doyle Dykes is unequivocally one of today's brightest shining stars within the arena of fingerstyle acoustic guitar! In an era where indulgent, new age droning has become passé, Dykes has breathed new life into the form of contemporary acoustic fingerstyle guitar music - merging flamenco fire, sparkling harmonics, virtuosic tremolos, molten hot single note runs, and southern alternating bass notes into a form of all too rare steel string ascendancy! But he is not just another in your face technician. His compositions overflow with aggressive originality and his solo guitar arrangements of standard hymns are enough to convert even the most jaded listener! In a nutshell, Doyle draws deeply from his well of spiritual and musical influences and pours out fresh music that both transfixes our ears and captivates our hearts.

But Doyle Dykes' ride to relative stardom has not been overnight. Growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, Dykes was surrounded by a musical family. Receiving his first guitar in his early teens, he immediately went to work extricating licks from his favorite recordings by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis. Though he flirted with the singer/songwriter mode of expression, Dykes felt the strongest resonance when playing unaccompanied fingerstyle acoustic guitar. In his mid-teens, he added the banjo to his repertoire and peppered his already formidable guitar playing with banjo techniques - engrafting frailing and rapid fire chromatic single note runs. He ultimately joined and toured with a gospel group called The Crusaders, then took a job touring with The Stamps - Elvis Presley's former backup band.

Disenchanted with some of the backstage antics and life on the road Doyle returned home to Jacksonville, got a day job, and married Rita his high school sweetheart.Though Dykes settled into a nine to five routine, Providence was lurking around the corner setting off a chain reaction of ripe opportunities. "Hee Haw" senior statesman Grandpa Jones was performing at a festival near Doyle's hometown and invited him to audition. Dykes lost no time in trying out for Grandpa's band and was subsequently hired. This was Doyle's link to the Grand Ole Opry where he later shared the stage with many of his long time heroes including Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Feeling restless, Doyle Dykes felt his church roots beckoning. With the blessing of Grandpa Jones, he left to begin his own ministry as a pastor in Jacksonville - simultaneously playing occasional tour dates. He soon realized that his instrumental fingerstyle acoustic guitar music was reaching people so he dedicated himself to ministering solely through his six string acoustic - playing stunning solo renditions of such hymns as "Amazing Grace" and "The Lord's Prayer". However, Dykes soon became frustrated again as he found preaching to the choir too confining. He sought to minister, yet desired a larger audience. One night, while pouring his heart out in prayer, Doyle told God that he wanted to be a musician, not a preacher/evangelist. "I felt a presence in the room," Dykes recounts, "and a very warm feeling came over me that let me know this was going to happen."

'Happen' is indeed a good word to describe what has been going on in Doyle Dykes' life since that momentous day! Offers have been pouring in, not the least of which have been a record deal with Windham Hill Records and an endorsement with Taylor Guitars. Through his experience, Dykes says he has learned the value of being specific in prayer - realizing that for God to take our prayers seriously, we need to take them seriously. Fortunately for aspiring guitarists, Doyle has released several fingerstyle acoustic guitar tab books and instructional DVD courses that teach his solo guitar pieces and the techniques he uses to play them.

About the Author

Peabody Conservatory trained guitarist Steven Herron helps people succeed at becoming better guitar players. His company ChordMelody.com features an enormous, unique selection of
acoustic guitar tab
as well as guitar books and instructional DVDs by
Doyle Dykes
himself.

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