I took some lessons with Duck a few years ago in Fulham. I found this review of him on the internet by Neil Dalton and it nicely sums him up. The best folk and jazz blues player I've ever known. I wish some more of his playing rubbed off on me.

"If ever a man could take a walk around a fret board, sly, suggestive, sometimes with a swagger, sometimes a skip, sometimes with a sashaying dance move, sometimes with a glide, all within an ambitiously intricate tune structure, then it is Richard R. Baker IV. I mean, he can finger and snap a G string like an aging pole dancer, all sexy innuendos and knowing smiles, and then finish with a self-satisfied grin as he charms you out of your money. He's a big man, with big hands and his small, lovingly age distressed, gut strung, acoustic guitar looked threatened in his grasp. Perhaps there's more walrus than 'duck' about his moustached appearance these days but the boy can still play. The trio attempted some pretty demanding music. There were harmonies in there that a five piece would have thought carefully about playing"