Rick Shaw Dinner Concert
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009| October 3, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Saturday, October 3, 7-10 p.m. $15 dinner & show (reservations recommended) $5 show only… Rick Shaw – Not a stage name, comes by songwriting honestly. He really had no choice – the genes ruled! His Grandmother - on Dad’s side was a country/ blues songwriter/singer during the depression and all through her life. She passed the country songwriting along to her son Jim Shaw, who ended up in and out of Nashville, Tennessee during his musical career, pitching songs and performing with the country artists of the 50’s 60’s and early 70’s. Rick inherited the songwriting and performing ability of his Dad in the country music field, while gaining the blues influence of his Grandmother, and the rock, and jazz influences that showed up along the way. A fourth generation Tennesseean, Rick didn’t take to country music right off while honing his guitar skills on Southern rock and roll, and blues as he became known for years as Rockin’ Rickey in music circles from Tampa, Forida to Nashville, and the Detroit, Michigan area in the seventies and into the eighties. When he got tired (quickly) of “cutting hamburgers into five and six parts to play rock music, where most of the money went to pay for the equipment,” he turned towards country music, where his Dad had been his whole life. After awhile he was opening concerts for acts such as Earl Thomas Conley, Jim Ed Brown, Eddie Raven, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, and B.B. King. Rick influenced one of the founding members of the country band - Sawyer Brown – lead guitarist Bobby Randall ( Who later hosted You Can be a Star, Nashville Network) with his rocking style of playing country music. Randall went so far as to copy Rick’s amplifier setup and style of guitar, as he would come to a certain venue they both worked from time to time, to ask how he played particular rock licks in a country song. Sadly, when the two met again after Randall’s band helped create the rocking country sounds you hear today, Randall acted as though they had never met, and Rick decided he liked ” Nashville cat’s” not a whole lot. So he moved to Tampa, Florida and turned to the Blues/Rock scene there. One night while playing at a club of Blues fame – The Blues Ship – a man entered while Rick was playing guitar with a three piece band there. The man had an entourage of people with him. At breaktime he was introduced to Robbie Steinhart – the founding member of the band Kansas, Violinist and songwriter of ” Dust in the Wind.” Robbie had picked Rick to open for his new band Steinhart Moon, at their gigs in Tampa Bay. In Robbie’s words ” play guitar like I just saw you do, Man.” That lasted about a year before Rick finally migrated back to Nashville to pursue songwriting in the late nineties and into the early part of this decade. He currently has a catalog of songs being shopped around and a publishing contract offer on the table in Nashville, with the son of legendary Nashville songwriter – Harlan Howard – Perry, at BMI. Rick moved to Oregon to be near his Dad as Jim’s health is on the decline. He’s been here two years now and has recently begun to venture out as a single act. Now working on a second album called MedicineMan, his first album can be purchased at his gigs or online at the following e-mail address. 7mmcreations7@sbcglobal.net
