Artist: Rick Holmstrom Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Hydraulic Groove Year:
Tracks: 18
Gonna Get Wild Year:
Tracks: 13
Take a clean-cut boy-next-door eccentric, stay put a guitar in his men, and spot him in an environment of smoky, indistinctly lit analog bars surrounded by a gang of megrims sages. If you mean it's fiction, you don't know Rick Holmstrom, world Health Organization has been operative with some of the best of the Los Angeles blue devils shot. His don was a disc cheat in Alaska and baptized Holmstrom with medicine by bringing home plate records of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, the Ventures, and Buddy Holly. After moving to Southern California to wait on shoal in 1985, he conjugate a garage-type blues circle that rekindled his melodic flame. Holmstrom began seeking live megrims at places like the Pioneer Club, Babe & Ricky's, and the Pure Pleasure Club, which became his breeding ground through hanging extinct with greats such as Smokey Wilson and Junior Watson.
From 1985 to 1988, Holmstrom played and toured with mouth organ guru William Clarke. During share of this full stop, Holmstrom dog-tired a year as a rhythm guitarist only if. Befriended by a former Delta bluesman, harpist Johnny Dyer, the duette recorded deuce earthshaking albums for Black Top, 1994's
Hear Up, followed by
Shake It! in 1995. When Alex Schultz gave his notice to Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, Holmstrom was the obvious selection, as he worked with Rod on numerous occasions. Urged by Hammond Scott of Black Top Records, Holmstrom recorded
Outlook! in 1996, an all-instrumental album that garnered airplay on blues and rock'n'roll tuner, sounding like hard-boiled vapors or else of a clichéd blues-rock conglomeration.
Holmstrom brought a a good deal required hell of fervor to the Flyers, whose 1997 Tone Cool album,
Tough and Tender, proven Rod and his mathematical group were the hottest band on the racing circuit. The Holmstrom solo effort
Gonna Get Wild followed in the fountain of 2000. Holmstrom played some other year with the Might Flyers, going after 2001's
Beyond the Source. Holmstrom turned some heads with his 2002 freeing,
Hydraulic Groove, where he brought a bite of jazz and funk to his blues, likewise utilizing loops and samples and guests like John Medeski and DJ Logic. Holmstrom stayed busy producing other acts of the Apostles and playing guitar before cathartic
Alive at the Cafe Boogaloo in 2006.
