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2. Genres, Styles, Moods & Themes for Interview With Rickey Medlocke - Rick Medlocke, Todd K. Smith on AllMusic.

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3. In the mid 90’s his old friend Gary Rossington called Medlocke and Rickey has been a part of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Guitar Army for over 23 years now. When we spoke, Rickey was at his Florida home, taking a short break from Skynyrd’s current “The Last of the Street Survivors Tour.” It was an honor for me to interview Rickey.

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4. Rickey Medlocke is an American musician who is known to the music lovers as the guitarist of the southern rock band ‘Blackfoot’ as well as one of the members of American rock band ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’. He joined ‘Blackfoot’ back in and was associated with the band for two years as a front-man cum guitarist. He then joined ‘Lynyrd.

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5. As Rickey tells it, the boys found Peter through their good friend Kid Rock and after landing the audition made the trip down to Nashville from Detroit, Michigan where he met with the guys for the first time. Faced with what Johnny calls a “crummy little keyboard, a Casio thing almost,” Peter sat down and began to play every piece of Lynyrd Skynyrd material thrown his way without a single.

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6. “Well, the major reason, a lot of it, actually has to do with Gary’s health,” guitarist Rickey Medlocke explained in a recent phone interview. “He’s had a lot of ups and downs in the recent years, heart (disease), etc., you know. Basically, he’s not able to go out and do the real grind as such.

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7. AN INTERVIEW WITH RICKEY MEDLOCKE By David Iozzia Photos by Robert Tuozzo. Rickey Medlocke is a southern rock superstar, so there’s no need to ask him “What’s Your Name?” Rickey was a founding member of the band Blackfoot, and he’s currently playing lead guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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8. in Germany. I got to interview Rickey during the Blackfoot tour.

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9. With the brand new CD God & Guns out (September 29) and WDHA’s 30th anniversary concert with the band coming up at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair on November 18th, Rickey Medlocke called into WDHA to speak with Jim Monaghan about the new CD, his acting career, and carrying on the LS legacy.

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