Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson is a full-time librarian and part-time music critic surviving in Greensboro, NC. He was raised in Boston and gained his bachelor’s and master’s levels at Brigham Youthful University. He started reviewing CDs inside a every week column for the Daily Herald in Provo, UT, in 1990, and offers since created music and publication reviews for several national and regional publications. Rick can be a training musician who takes on acoustic guitar, banjo, dulcimer, string bass, Irish flute, bodhran, and 18th hundred years rope-tension field drum. He was a founding person in the famous Utah ska music group Swim Herschel Swim, and in addition has played in various dance rings, jazz combos, and several university orchestras and concert rings. His contributions to all or any Music Guide concentrate on reggae and ska, his regions of very best interest and experience, but likewise incorporate reviews of rock and roll, jazz, and folk albums. Desert Isle Picks Lee “Nothing” Perry – Arkology (Isle) Richard & Linda Thompson – Capture Out the Lighting (Hannibal) W.A. Mozart – Flute Quartets (Kuijkens/Accent) Poor Brains – I Against I (SST) Prince Considerably I – Tone of voice of Thunder (Trojan) Elvis Costello – 2 ½ Years container established (Rykodisc) Mary Dark – Gathered (Gifthorse) Richard Thompson – Viewing the Dark (Hannibal) G.P. da Palestrina – Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (Westminster Cathedral Choir/Hyperion) Pere Ubu – Datapanik in the entire year Zero box established (Geffen) Isaac Green & the Skalars – Skoolin’ Using the Skalars (Moon Ska NYC) The Toasters – Thrill Me Up (Moon Ska NYC) Freedy Johnston – This Ideal Globe (Elektra) Paul Simon – Graceland (Warner) Thelonious Monk – Outstanding Sides (Riverside) William Boyce – Symphonies, Op. 2 (Acad. of Old Music/L’Oiseau-Lyre) Crimson Mitchell – Presenting Crimson Mitchell (Modern) Ian Robb – From Different Angels (Fallen Angel) Ralph Stanley – My All and everything (Rebel)