Rick huckaby nashville

Solar and Rick Huckaby. This performance setup offers the audience a more intimate show than a regular concert setting. The past year has felt like a sad country song for performers used to drawing inspiration from a live audience of music fans. Solar and Blake Griffith headline the Songwriter Showcase from 7 p. The Baton Rouge native was raised in a music-filled home.

His dad, the late basketball coach Rick Huckabay Sr. Huckaby played drums, guitar and sang in various bands after his family moved to West Virginia.

In , he moved to Nashville to pursue his musical dreams. Big Shoes is a Nashville Tennessee based "progressive" blues band who incorporates traditional blues influences like B. Big Shoes was originally formed as a "tribute project" to recreate the early music of the 's band Little Feat.

As the band's following grew it became clear that it was important to carve out a unique identity. That was a fun and impressive journey that has culminated in release of their first album, "Shoes Blues" and most recently the critically acclaimed "Step On It! Keyboardist, Mark T. Jordan, was a band member on the Van Morrison classis album "Tupelo Honey", Bonnie Raitt's "Road Tested" live CD and scores of other albums that can only be classified as "music history. The credentials go on and on for the members of Big Shoes.

The combination of talents is impeccable. Rick is a successful Nashville songwriter, support musician and recording artist. After 2 years of working construction for an asphalt company, Rick landed a dream gig as the acoustic guitar player for country music superstar, Tracy Lawrence.

In , Rick and his brother Andy formed the independent record label and publishing company, HeadCoach Music, in honor of their father who passed away from cancer in Rick continues to write songs for other artists and can be seen regularly with his band in Nashville and across the United States.