Rickey Medlocke Net Worth is
$1.4 Million

Mini Biography

Rickey Medlocke continues to be performing onstage because the age group of 3. His grandfather, well-known Delta blues musician Shorty Medlocke, brought the youthful Rickey along to execute with him every Sunday night on an area television system, “The Toby Dowdy Display”. Rickey would play a small banjo Shorty got taught him to try out. From age groups 3-8 Rickey followed Shorty within the air with concert events, and over time his musical skills and natural capabilities grew. By age group 5 he previously taught himself to try out acoustic guitar and by age group 8 he was playing drums in Shorty’s music group, at regional dances and auditoriums. Over time Rickey’s like of music and carrying out forced him to master playing additional instruments–mandolin, dobro, keyboards and specially the acoustic guitar. Rickey also offers a melodic performing voice, and got taught himself how exactly to sing and play acoustic guitar at exactly the same time. While in senior high school Rickey got the performing insect and performed in college productions of displays like “West Part Story,” “Oklahoma” and “Brigadoon”. When he graduated from senior high school there is a blossoming music picture in southern Florida, and Rickey couldn’t withstand its draw. He produced a band along with his youth friends and known as it Blackfoot honoring their Local American heritage. He previously also developed with associates of another Jacksonville music group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, so when Blackfoot’s tries to move towards the north (NY and NJ) didn’t appear to be effective, he known as Skynyrd head Ronnie Truck Zant, who asked him to arrive play drums using the soon to become legendary music group. Rickey had written and occasionally sang with Skynyrd, but seated behind a drum package could never fulfill the enthusiastic, charismatic performing character of Rickey Medlocke. Ultimately he made a decision to re-form Blackfoot, where he sang and performed lead guitar, furthermore to composing or co-writing a lot of the band’s tracks. Blackfoot was a Southern music group but also a difficult rock band, which helped these to stand ou. For another many years Blackfoot toured the globe incessantly. Spurred on by strike singles like “Teach Teach”, “Highway Song” and “Soar Away”, Blackfoot offers offered five million files throughout their job. In the first 1990s Rickey finally made a decision to split up the music group he’d began and considered pursuing his additional profession goals, including performing. Nevertheless, Lynyrd Skynyrd creator Gary Rossington phoned Rickey and asked him to rejoin the music group, this time around in the pivotal part of business lead guitarist and among the major songwriters, which was something Rickey could under no circumstances ignore. Since his rejoining the music group in 1996, Lynyrd Skynyrd continues to be enjoying a significant resurrection, also to date the music group has sold nearly 40 million albums world-wide. In 2000 Rickey saw the brand new millennium as period for some fresh challenges and decided that he wished to pursue the operating career he’d constantly imagined. He began monitoring and reading for parts. William Shatner solid Rickey in his 1st role, in Bridegroom Lake (2002). Since that time he has made an appearance on Television, in another film which has yet to become released and on the net advertisements and radio advertisements. In his free time between all his function, Rickey is focusing on a book about his music career and on a solo album.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Rickey Medlocke
Date Of Birth	February 17, 1950
Height	1.87 m
Profession	Guitarist, Actor, Singer, Drummer, Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, Simple Man
Nationality	American
Music Groups	Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, Simple Man
Movies	Groom Lake, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama