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Les Cousins Music and Duck Baker are pleased to announce the pre-release of a new recording by legendary American fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker; whose recording career spans over three decades, including 22 solo records and appearances on another 35.

Duck Baker is one of the most accomplished, original, and influential guitar voices of his generation, equally at home playing solo or with other musicians in an amazing variety of musical idioms. Indeed, much of his repertoire has been learned playing in bands of different kinds.

On "The Roots and Branches of American Music Baker" presents a solo program that includes everything from Irish dance tunes to modern jazz. There are ragtime tunes, old-timey fiddle tunes, and blues, gospel and swing, including three of Duck's trademark vocals.

1. Sergeant Early's Dream/Chief O'Neil's Favorite

2. Souareba

3. Maple Leaf Rag

4. Midnight on the Water/Peacock Rag

5. Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age

6. Buddy Bolden's Blues

7. Somewhere Around A Throne

8. Say It Simple

9. Blue Monk

10. Whistling Rufus

11. A Thousand Words

12. Berkeley Hambone Blues

13. The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside

14. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

15. Wink The Other Eye/Buffalo Gals

16. Mother Ann's Song

£10.99 including postage and packing incl worldwide postage

for Immediate Despatch

 It's really American. It's what happened to music from this island mixed with African music. It only happened in the USA, it didn't happen in Spanish America or anywhere else. There are English/British influences in the blues; people didn't sing spirituals in Africa but a lot of them sound like syncopated Scottish songs. The black people absorbed the melodic sense and the white folk absorbed the syncopation. That's when you started to get syncopated fiddle tunes. It's interesting to me that people talk about integration and the mixing of cultures as a good thing but when it comes to music they want it to be segregated. They want the blues to be black, they want Celtic music to be this and so on. That's not how it should be.