Rickey Medlocke
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Rickey Medlocke | |
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![]() Medlocke performing live in 2009 (with a Gibson Explorer) | |
Background information | |
Born | Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | February 17, 1950
Genres | Southern rock, hard rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
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Years active | 1969–present |
Member of | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Formerly of | Blackfoot |
Rick Medlocke (born February 17, 1950) is an American musician, best known as the frontman/guitarist for the Southern rock band Blackfoot and a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. During his first stint with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1971 to 1972, he played drums and sang lead on a few songs that would initially be released on 1978's "First and... Last". Medlocke would rejoin Blackfoot in 1972 and later returned to Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996 as a guitarist with whom he continues to tour and record today.
Medlocke was inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008.[1]
Early life
Rickey Medlocke was born Rickey Lynn Green on February 17, 1950, in
Career
Medlocke recorded shortly with the 1970s era Lynyrd Skynyrd band as a session musician, occasionally playing drums or singing lead on a few songs for them in 1971: "One More Time", "Preacher's Daughter", "Lend a Helpin' Hand", "Wino", "White Dove", "Comin' Home", "The Seasons", "Ain't Too Proud to Pray", and "You Run Around". On occasion, Medlocke played alongside the band's original drummer
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For a while in the 1990s, Medlocke thought about pursuing other careers until he received a phone call in 1996 from
Discography
With Blackfoot
With Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Street Survivors (1977) (drums & chorus on One More Time recorded during 1971-1972)
- Skynyrd's First and... Last (1978) (contains early recordings from 1971 and 1972)
- Twenty (1997)
- Lyve from Steel Town (1998)
- Skynyrd's First - The Complete Muscle Shoals Album (1998) (contains early recordings from 1971 and 1972)
- Edge of Forever (1999)
- Christmas Time Again (2000)
- Vicious Cycle (2003)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour (2003)
- God & Guns (2010)
- Last of a Dyin' Breed (2012)