Rick Alan Carpenter
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Born “in the east” and raised “out west”, Carpenter started playing the guitar at thirteen. “My mother played the piano and always entertained when people came over, so I caught the bug early on.” He started playing bass as well and found out he could get more work as a bass player, because “everyone wanted to play the guitar.”
After a few years playing bass in several rock bands (including a stint with legendary LA guitarist Terry Kilgore), Rick Alan rediscovered the country music he heard as a kid. “I had a friend who had thousands of records, Buck and Merle, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, Joe Maphis, all the great Bakersfield stuff, I felt reborn.”
The cowpunk scene in LA had spawned Dwight Yoakam, The Blasters and Lone Justice, and the neo-traditional country sound appealed to Carpenter. “I played the Palomino not long before it closed, but was getting tired of LA, and headed for Nashville with my guitars and a suitcase full of sad songs in ‘93.
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