Frank Pesce, John Koerner, Dave Ray, Chris Smither, Rolf Cahn & Eric Von Schmidt, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Lloyd Jones, Bryan Darby, John Malloy, Ric Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Babe Stovall, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Mance Lipscomb, Jimmy Rodgers, Carlos Montoya, Doc Watson...
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Richard Collins has cd's available on amazon.com, createspace.com, lulu.com, and through email at richdcollins@yahoo.com. Rich's friends and fans have been taping his performances since 1965..Richard and his wife are avid supporters of local jazz and blues artists...and now he is able to donate proceeds from cd sales to worthy concerns...thanks to all who look and to the few who purchase...Richard.
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My Charity record is Rich Collins & the 23rd Trio "On Fire" it is selling for only $6.75 u s dollars and i am determined to raise money for the new orleans musicians' relief fund:
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General
RICHARD COLLINS : Richard Collins was born and raised in New Orleans. He was educated at Jesuit High School, Tulane University, & LSU Graduate School. In the 1950's he performed on the King Cake Circuit with Kenny Roig and others--doing early rock n roll material. His dad was President of the New Orleans Rotory Club and Richard got the chance to meet the great Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Johnny St Cyr, and Burl Ives. In the mid 1960s he was on the sidelines of the civil rights movement, frequented the hip places in the French Quarter, performed with Frank Pesce's Court of Two Sisters Jazz Band, Babe Stovall and many others. He toured the East Coast in the Summer of 1968, playing Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, and NYC. In the 1970s he played for Bukka White, Furry Lewis, and Lightnin' Hopkins accompanied by his first wife, pianist, Leta St Romain (1949-2005) at New Orleans' only River City Blues Festival 1971; he helped re-discover New Orleans Singing Fireman, Gerry Lott in 1974, and in 1976 moved to Oregon and performed at almost all of the then major urban venues...and was in Europe in the summer of 1979: London, Zurich, & Paris..In the 1980s he had his own 1 hour Television Show which served as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association and the broadcast was aired on Channel 7 for 14 years on every Valentine's Day; was in a swing band with bluegrass star, John Malloy, called "Nevertheless," and performed with Liquid Blues, Paul Delay, Fritz Richmond, and Tom McFarland at many of Portland's top clubs including performances at the Galleria in Portland , Oregon, everyday for 3 years. In the early 1990s he returned to New Orleans to work on his Ph.D.in Special Education. In 1997 he came home to Oregon and was booked at the Green Room---3 days a week for 2 months opening the shows for Terry Robb, Norman Silvester, and LLoyd Jones and many others. He also recorded and performed with the 23RD Trio; and the avant-garde, jazz group, Hats, led by Steve Westfall and Dorkas Holloway in which he played trumpet. In 2002 he began playing at Kornblatt's Deli on NW 23rd Ave in Portland..He has been there daily for the past 4 years. In 2009 he celebrates 50 years of guitar with the release of 26 cd's spanning the years 1965-2009 of his recordings captured by his friends at various venues...Currently, Richard is working with professional guitarist, David Martin from Pittsburgh, and delta bluesman, Henry Berry out of Chicago... .................................................
MORE INFO:
Richard Collins is an obscure jazz musician from New Orleans...He plays guitar, dobro, piano, trumpet, banjo and violin ...now in his 60's , he has been a solo performer for 5 decades. As a band leader he never rehearsed with his fellow musicians, he was always out of tune and played on dead strings and cheap instruments--even in recording sessions...yet, despite his personal quirks and misgivings he is still active and performing daily on the west coast in Portland, Oregon. His music has never had much swing to it--his style is very reserved and conservative and his voice is often off-key and intolerable. His vast repertoire includes tunes from Duke Ellington and The Beatles to Hank Williams and Rosetta Thorpe. He likes all forms of music and is multi-layered from solo folk and blues to small group swing & trad jazz to movie scores with full orchestration. Collins has been in 2 movies, on television and radio, and has done several commercials...He has recorded over 509 songs... and has produced 26 cd's.
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I just took up hybrid "Slide Playing" on Standard Dread with .13's, metal thumb and fingerpicks, and thick ceramic slide, but I really look forward to practice with a steel bar on the squareneck resonator to be able to angle it in the larger spaces between the strings with the high action of the real deal. Dobro is fascinating. I wish I would have taken it up years ago along with Clawhammer style finger picking and I would more likely never have put the Guitar down for the all the years I abandoned the instrument. Resonator playing just feels like what I have been missing all along, especially since I have dedicated so much time in the last 1.5+ years to learning Harmonica and experimenting with changing my style of acoustic playing to primarily fingerpicking instead of flatpicking. Thank you for the friend add. Resonators Rock My World.
Hey Richard: Just stopp'in in for some of the real stuff. You know, every time I stop in I just set back and take it all in, you make it sound right, I mean real right. Henry
Hey Richard You gona love this, and you were the first person I thought about. I was asked to play on a street corner for a township on Friday and Saturday night. Real nice little town. Well I started pickin’ and the lady asked if that was a loud as I got. I told I an’t no damn rock and roll band. She paid me for both nights and told me not to come back that she would get a little band. I go back the next night for the fun of it to see my replacement, guess what. They were About the same as me…an’t that a hoot.
