Biography

S O N G C O A C H, T E A C H E R, & L E C T U R E R
Rick has been coaching individual songwriters since 1985 and teaches commercial songwriting at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He is the director of the Kerrville Folk Festival Song School held in Kerrville, Texas each year and a curriculum writer and lecturer for The Nashville Songwriters Association International's song camps and Workshops. Rick has conducted 3 hour to 3 day seminars for songwriter's groups and conventions across the United States, Canada and England.



S T A F F W R I T E R
Window Music and Silverline Music: 1978-85 Pete Drake's Company.

P R O D U C E R
Shanley Del, BMG, Australia. Wrote, arranged, produced 1998 ARIA (Australian Grammy) Award winning Country Album of the Year album. 2 Rex Foster albums, 1989 and 1992.


P R O D U C E R
Shanley Del, BMG, Australia. Wrote, arranged, produced 1998 ARIA (Australian Grammy) Award winning Country Album of the Year album. 2 Rex Foster albums, 1989 and 1992.

P R O D U C E R
Shanley Del, BMG, Australia. Wrote, arranged, produced 1998 ARIA (Australian Grammy) Award winning Country Album of the Year album. 2 Rex Foster albums, 1989 and 1992.

A U T H O R
"Songwriting Dangerously". The book,
due in 2004, about the songwriting process based on original concepts Rick teaches at Belmont University and to his private clients.


Rick was raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts and has lived in San Francisco, CA and Austin, Texas. He has resided in Nashville, TN, since 1978.


Rick with his wife, Deanna Walker.
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D I S C O G R A P H Y H I G H L I G H T S

"If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, Her Memory Will" sung by George Jones
BMI MUSIC Award
CITY NEWS Award
"Harmony" sung by John Conlee
BMI Award
"Especially You" sung by Don Williams
Title Track of album, Top 20 Single In England
"Taking My Time" sung by Everly Brothers
"Easy Come, Hard to Go" sung by Mickey Gilley
"Taking My Time" sung by Brenda Lee
"Born Again" sung by B.J. Thomas
"Old Friends" sung by Shanley Del
ARIA Award (Australian Grammy) for best Country Album of the Year 1998
"Song for Brent" sung by Cindi Church,
SOCAN Humanitarian Award, Canada
"Must Be Livin' Right" sung by Steve Fox 

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