Album Notes

Rick Droit started off performing around the small college town of Carbondale Illinois

During this time He also gave benefit performances for The Friends for Native Americans, The Student Democratic Convention, The Battered Women's Shelter, Special Olympics and The Black Diamond Ranch's fundraiser to Save the Shawnee Forest from being cut & sold, meanwhile famous photo journalist Cheryl Broadie began a visual documentation of Summer's career in music.

In 1996 Rick Summer Droit moved to to Austin Texas to further explore his music career.

He soon began to perform his originals at Babes on Sixth Street, The Chicago House, The Austin Outhouse, The 503 Coffee bar, Magnolia Cafe South, and The Old Pecan Street Festival, Cactus Cafe as well as attending and performing for a whole new audience of fans at 25th annual Kerrville Folk Festival (this included a surprise Televised appearance on Swiss-German Television).

Later that year Droit went into the studio to record his first studio album "Gypsy Love" which includes the western folk favorite "Sidewinder" and the Americana chart topping "Morning in December".

The classically trained Emmy Dennison adds her unique style of flute on the song "Gypsy Love" and "Traveller's Son", a haunting tune about a lost soul seeking redemption on the streets of a large metropolitan city.

In 1998 Summer was voted by popular demand onto the Threadgill stage at the Kerrville Folk Festival to an enthusiastic crowd of 500 people with his friend Owl Morrison accompanying him on Viola and backing vocals, after much touring across the U.S. Droit released "Laughing like a Banshee" in 1999 which included a plethora of guests culled from peers and friends at the Kerrville Folk Festival.

Even though Summer has remained in the background during many projects he has done for others, he is coming into his own, his excellent lyrical abilities and his guitar playing have matured and critics say he is one of the best male vocalists in the genre

Summer enjoyed chart success again in 2000 with "Sleepy Hollow" featuring a duet with Laura Freeman, the song has remained in the top 10 folk music charts for over 2 years.

Rick Summer Droit has been broadcast on both television and radio domestically and abroad and is a published poet,cartoonist and established painter of fantasy art.

Droit is currently working on a new CD featuring several notable guest artists adding their talents to his original songs, also he has recently finished production of a DVD of some of his live performances as well as his PBS Televsion appearances. Check out his offical website for more info.
www.rickdroit.com

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