FOR BOOKING INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mescal Sheiks Productions
Booking@mescalsheiks.com
Rick Solem is available as a solo performer or a duo (Shakedown Mambo)
Influences
Sounds Like
Rick Solem plays boogie woogie and New Orleans style blues-based rock and roll piano and writes his own songs. When working on other artist's records or performing his own songs, Rick Solem delivers the goods with passion and integrity.
Bands: Dallas Hodge, Dave Alvin, Billy Bremner, Catfish Hodge, Finas Tasby, Roy Gaines, Albert Lee and many others.
Co/wrote and co/produced the Mescal Sheiks'CD:
"This world is not my Home"
Wrote the Self-produced the CD: "Just Lucky I Guess".
Featuring: Dave Alvin, Juke Logan, Catfish Hodge, Joe Sublett and Denny Freeman (Taj Mahal's and Bob Dylan's Bands ).
Appears on Dallas Hodge's new CD"I Need a Holiday"...
Placed songs in numerous TV shows and films.
Recorded soundtracks for several major motion pictures
including,"Are We There Yet", by
David Newman: Composer.
Yeah, Rick Solem is a motherf..... on the piano. I place him right next to The Blasters Gene Taylor in the boogie woogie/blues/New Orleans style of piano playing. He's also an extremely talented songwriter. He was recently at my house and played me some of his new songs. Amazing stuff. Sort of like Randy Newman and John Lennon writing songs with Professor Longhair. Hopefully he can get a CD out of his new material and get known for his writing as well as his piano chops. What I've said about Rick Shea also goes for Rick Solem, once a guilty man, always guilty in my book.
