Artist ~ RIP LORICKCD Title ~ HOLD ON TEXASEmphasis on tracks ~ #1 Hold on Texas, #2 Head Full of Snakes, #3 You’ve Already Broken My Heart, & #8 Amber’s Ballad CD Engineered by: Matt Hubbard (Matt has worked with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Fastball and many others.)Recorded at: LUCK Studios, Luck, TX & Pazsu Studios, Boerne, TXMastered by: Jerry Tubb at TERRA NOVA Digital Audio, Inc., Austin, TX  (Jerry's mastering skills are well known throughout the US, Europe and Australia.) “Rip’s music, is GREAT!  But I would expect no less, considering he’s been hanging around and influenced by the best all his life.  I’m very, very proud of him.  I hope his talent takes him as far as I think it should.”    - WILLIE NELSON BIO:  At a young age, Rip began performing the music of his honky tonk heroes, such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe, John R. Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark, John Price, Billy Joe Shaver, Steve Earle, and Rodney Crowell. 

Rip, the “Youngest Outlaw,” later moved to Nashville, where he performed his country funk at Tootsies and Roberts Western Wear.  Rip’s Nashville recordings include “Lights of the City, Songs for Sale, and Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way,” produced by Robby Turner, “the gentle giant on the pedal steel.”  “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way,” was also produced by long time Willie Nelson side man Bee Spears and featured Reggie Young.

Rip has started to generate a successful Texas following.  He has shared the stage or performed with: Billy Joe Shaver, Cory Morrow, Doug Moreland, Gary P. Nunn, Pete Anderson, Deryl Dodd, Pauline Reese, Melissa Sellers, The McKay Brothers, South Austin Jug Band, Bobby Boyd, Nelson Ray, & numerous others.

“I’m doing what I always wanted to do, write, sing and pick.”  Really, it’s the only way I know.