Artist description Guitar, 12-string guitar & slide guitar, performing mostly blues with a sprinkling of folk & bluegrass

Music Style Acoustic Blues, Folk

Musical Influences Tom Rush, John Herald, Norman Blake, Paul Geremia

Similar Artists Tom Rush

Artist History Started in Greenwich Village in 1968. Toured nationally, if intermittantly, since.

Group Members Rick Ross

Instruments Guitar, 12-string guitar & slide guitar

Albums Fireflies in the Rain; Guys Just Wanna Have Fun

Press Reviews Listen.com: "An able guitar player as well as a songwriter, Rick Ross displays his love of country, folk and Bluegrass in Dylan-esque songs that incorporate elements of all three genres. A strong dose of bluesy soul adds weight to these evocative, lyrical songs." Indie-music.com: "...After he starts out with a Dan Peek tune (remember the band America?) called "Rainy Day" (from their very first record - yeah, record!), Rick shows his true colors as an instrumentalist on a healthy dose of blues, country-blues and bluegrass. ...Rick plays 12-string guitar and sings lead vocals. Pretty good voice, too. His arrangement of the old blues tune "Trouble in Mind" allows him to show his wicked slide talent... His treatment of Geoff Muldaur's folksy/blues (sorta) "Mole's Moan" (totally instrumental) is just drop-dead beautiful - crisp, clear, string squeaks and all! More blues tunes on which his guitar shines are "Mobile-Texas Line" (accompanied by great blues harp from Ted Paulsen) and Washboard Sam's "Orphan's Blues." Rick also shows his versatility with his finger-flyin' flat-pickin' style on "Ella Speed" (traditional country-blues) and Doug Dillard's "Sinkin' Creek." Perhaps it's now appropriate to insert a note about Deane Lewis, who even wrote a tune ("Another Fine Mess," -- bluegrass). Lewis is a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist who simply dazzles with his skill on the banjo, mandolin and bass. Now for a word on Rick's own tunes. They are generally gentle, country-folk type slice-of-life ballads that seem somehow autobiographical and so very real."

Location Granby, CT - USA

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