Rick Solem plays boogie woogie and New Orleans style blues-based rock and roll
piano. Whether working on other artists' records or performing his own songs,
Rick Solem delivers the goods with passion and integrity.

Bands: Dave Alvin; Billy Bremner; Catfish Hodge; Finas Tasby; Roy Gaines; Albert
Lee and many others.

Placed songs in TV and films.

Recorded soundtracks for: "Honeymoon in Vegas"; "A Thing Called Love";
"Cry-Baby"

Wrote the self-produced CD "Just Lucky I Guess," featuring Dave Alvin, Juke
Logan, Catfish Hodge, Joe Sublett and Denny Freeman (from Taj Mahal's band).

Yeah, Rick Solem is a motherf***er on the piano. I place him right next to The
Blasters' Gene Taylor in the boogie woogie/blues/New Orleans style of piano
playing. He's also an extremely talented songwriter. He was recently at my house
and played me some of his new songs. Amazing stuff. Sort of like Randy
Newman and John Lennon writing songs with Professor Longhair. Hopefully he can
get a CD out of his new material and get known for his writing as well as his piano
chops. What I've said about Rick Shea also goes for Rick Solem, once a Guilty
Man, always Guilty in my book.

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