Andrew Frolish reviews "Love & Desperation" and announces a new "Big Rain Is Comin', Mama" video in Americana-UK.
"Rick Shea crafts songs of the highest quality and the new material shows he is still on top form. Enjoy."
Hyperbolium reviews Rick Shea's "Love & Desperation.
"Luckily, Shea’s world isn’t confined by his physical circumstances, as he still writes imaginative ballads (“A Tenderhearted Love”), ambivalent musings (“Nashville Blues”), and cinematic stories (the closing “Texas Lawyer”) that belie the pandemic-induced isolation in which this music was created." [©2020 Hyperbolium]
Excellent review by Jim Hynes in Glide Magazine.
"This is the essence of Americana music, delivered by one of its severely underrecognized talents accompanied by some of the best musicians in southern California. If you like the music of artists like Dave Alvin, Dwight Yoakam, and Tom Russell and are only familiar with Shea as a sideman, you owe this a listen."