Duck Baker

Kid On The Mountain

Re-release 1999

Fantasy Records (re-issue)
(KMCD-3913-2)

Released on CD

Tracklist:

01 The Wicklow Hornpipe /Prudlock’s Hornpipe
02 Blind Mary
03 The Blarney Pilgrim
04 Duke Of Fife’s Welcome To    Deeside
05 Sir Sidney Smith’s March
06 Bantry Bay
07 Morgan Magan
08 Kid On The Mountain
09 Medley: Fanteladda / Boys Of    Ballisodare
10 Rights Of Man
11 Elsie Marley
12 Sheebeg And Sheemore
13 Lament For Limerick
14 The March Of The King Of Laoise
15 Medley: The South Wind /The Blackbird
16 No Love
17 Mardi Gras Dance

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Long before the current boom of interest in Celtic music fostered a generation of aspiring Celtic guitarists, Duck Baker recorded KID ON THE MOUNTAIN, which remained the only solo guitar recording of Irish and Scottish music for over a decade. A familiar figure at Irish sessions around London, where he lived in the late 1970s, Duck applied his considerable arranging talents to the music he heard around him, extending the American fingerpicking vocabulary as he delved into the roots of Celtic music.

Duck’s complex arrangements strive to maintain not only the melodic elegance of Irish music but also its drive and passion. Considered a classic by guitar aficionados since its original issue in 1980, Kid on the Mountainremains a high point in the career of one of the most important contemporary fingerstylists.Also included as bonus tracks are selections from the anthologies IRISH REELS,JIGS, HORNPIPES & AIRS and CONTEMPORARY GUITAR WORKSHOP and an instrumental track from Duck’s solo album KING OF BONGO BONG.

Medley: The Wicklow Hornpipe/Proudlock’s Hornpipe, Blind Mary, The Blarney Pilgrim, Duke of Fife’s Welcome to Deeside, Sir Sidney Smith’s March, Bantry Bay, Morgan Magan, Kid on the Mountain, Medley: Fanteladda/Boys of Ballisodare, Rights of Man, Elsie Marley, Sheebeg and Sheemore, Lament for Limerick,
CD bonus tracks: The March of the King of Laoise, Medley: The South Wind/The Blackbird, No Love, Mardi Gras Dance