Rick was born in 1975 in Fort Ouachuca, Arizona. His formative years were spent as an “Army Brat”, picking up every year or so to move to another town in another state. By age 10, he had lived in four different U.S. states and spent a year in Germany. On his sixteenth birthday, he received his first guitar- a Travis – one of those guitars “guaranteed not to crack”. He took a total of two guitar lessons, cleaning his instructor’s toilets as “payment”. Needless to say, Rick decided to teach himself. His first real foray into the music business was with Davenport, a band he started along with his high school classmates in Dallas, TX. Davenport ran it’s course after 4 years, however, and Rick found himself without a musical outlet. Until he moved to the tiny town of Waxahachie, just south of Dallas. Here he met Eric Jordan, who it turned out, shared many of the same musical sensibilities. The two wrote songs, formed the band Back To Blue, and released their first E.P., “Forgotten”. These days, Rick is working on updating some of his old songs and writing new ones for a future solo release as well as a planned collaboration with ex-Davenport and The Shape member Paul Blanchard.