Music of ragged beauty and raw emotion in which guitars, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and organ mesh together into a spare melodic setting for songs that touch the soul with their honesty and power.

13 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Americana, FOLK: Alternative Folk

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Rickâs tradition is that of the singer/songwriter and storyteller; as well as being a musician he is a writer and is the author of three best-selling fantasy novels entitled âThe Faradawn Trilogyâ. His musical influences can be detected in his songs and his playing but his work possesses a startling sense of originality and his musical influences seem to mesh together with a timelessness like the blues, folk and country music that he loves so much.
Rickâs songs are steeped in the wild beauty of the hills, valleys and moorlands around his remote home in the Peak District countryside; at once simple, raw and earthy and yet at the same time filled with an indefinable sense of poignancy and yearning. Though some of Rickâs songs are heartbreaking in their unflinching honesty, the insight he brings into his portrayal of the human condition is riveting.
Rick plays and sings in the pubs and clubs around North Staffordshire in the U.K., either on his own or with various other musicians including Kelly Poynton on accompanying vocals, Tim Mundy on mandolin and Ian Woolley on dobro, all of whom appear on Rickâs new CD, âSmoke and Mirrors.â

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