For over a quarter of a century, Ricky Warwick’s life and career has straddled two continents. It takes a certain kind of intuition to harvest the best of both worlds and to fashion a life and body of work built on integrity, humility and respect.
It’s apparent in his music. Ricky remains undoubtedly one of the hardest working men in rock n roll. That ethos, formed and forged in the farm fields of Northern Ireland’s County Down countryside, stood the teenager in the greatest of stead when he first came to pick up a guitar at the age of 13.
Ricky Warwick is a man who can’t stand still. There’s too much to be done and only 24 hours in every day. His love of performing as a solo artist is palpable, as at home in front of a mic and slinging an acoustic guitar as he is at the epicentre of a bank of Marshalls. The solo albums continue to land with the accuracy of a perfectly flighted arrow.
The man’s creativity continues to roar with the force of a mountain river. It is simply unstoppable...