Gypsy Love by Rick Summer Droit

Rick grew up listening to his Grandparents play Mandolin & Guitar and later his sister "Cricket" gave him the rock, folk & blues albums that would also help shape his sound.

In 1991 he moved to Southern Illinois and began performing solo at coffeehouses, cafes, restaurants and bars around the small college town of Carbondale.

It was there that Rick would fall in with a talented bunch of musicians such as Robbie Stokes (who recorded with Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, Shawn Colvin, Quicksilver Messenger Service etc.), Dave Parrish (Buddy Guy) and others learning and absorbing all the licks he could.

During this time He also gave benefit performances for The Friends for Native Americans, The Student Democratic Convention, NORML, The Battered Women's Center 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 m Magnolia Cafe South, and The Old Pecan Street Festival as well as attending and performing informally to a whole new audience of fans at 25th annual The Kerrville Folk Festival (this included a suprise Televised appearance on Swiss/German Set 3 TV).

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".

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 his voice is sounding better than ever!

Summer enjoyed chart success again in 2000 with "Sleepy Hollow" featuring a duet with Laura Freeman, the song has remained in Soundclick's 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.

( Look for his Art and T-Shirts on Ebay ! )

Buy his "Gypsy Love" CD today, you'll be glad you did!

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