Rickey Pittman
Monroe, LA
Rickey Pittman--songwriter, folksinger, storyteller--has been playing some kind of music as long as he can remember. His father (from Haskell County Texas) taught him to play mandolin, a bit of steel guitar, bass guitar, but it was the six-string guitar that has stuck with him. Pittman has a huge songlist. He has held onto the traditional country and western songlist that he learned from his father, but today you will hear him at festivals and taverns performing Scots-Irish ballads, songs of the Civil War, or Americana. He incorporates stories into his presentation when he can, believing that every song, like every person, has a story that needs to be told. His first CD is scheduled to be produced this summer