Rick Shea

The son of the career Air Force officer, Rick Shea was created in 1953 when his family was stationed at Annapolis. As a kid, Shea and his family members traveled wherever the environment Force delivered them. The elder Shea retired to San Bernardino, CA, when Rick is at junior high. This actually was the starting place for Rick’s association with California’s nation music as well as the Bakersfield audio. An alumnus of quantity three from the A City South of Bakersfield task, Shea’s music “Foot within the Fire” is still a favorite, requested favorite. Nevertheless, before there is actually an inkling of the task just like the TSOB compilation series, Shea got to discover your guitar. He started to experiment in rings and gigging from enough time he was in seventh or 8th grade. By senior high school he had found out Merle Haggard. After senior high school he do acoustic solo times wherever he could. He also started learning the fundamentals of recording. Going out in studios possessed by friends as well as other players provided him the training he would want. In 1989 Shea released his initial task, which highlighted a dazzling duet with another California nation vocalist who also have scored using the TSOB task, Patty Booker. Beyond Nashville, created with Wyman Reese and John Lee Light III, was an excellent record of Shea’s profession progress. A favorite participant around L.A., he was frequently highlighted with Chris Gaffney and Brantley Kearns and documented with Heather Mls. A steel participant and a guitarist, his music were frequently scooped up by various other performers, as may be the case along with his “Bed of Roses,” that was included on Cody Bryant’s debut disk. A 1995 Compact disc, Buffalo Show, captured the eye of Americana radio and included story-songs like “The Rattlesnake Daddy’s Little girl,” “Georgia Pines,” and many Tex-Mex quantities sung in Spanish. In 1997, Shea proceeded to go into the studio room to record his following task. He was also an associate of the music group 1000 Wedding, signing up for previous friend Wyman Reese in addition to previous Plowboy Tracy Huffman. Being a sideline, he was recognized to do a small journalism. His overview of the George Jones bio was successful after it had been published within the L.A. Situations during the summer months of 1996.