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About Me

Some songs that didn't make it to the CD, and a couple that did:

I am primarily a student at the University of Ottawa studying psychology. I am active in the folk music community here in Ottawa, and I write songs largely inspired by my Newfoundland roots, and Johnny Cash. I like to read, watch movies and bicycle. Life is good. I have recorded my first CD entitled Songs and Companions, and I will probably be doing some recording for my next CD this summer(2008).Right now I am practising with two great musicians. A bassist by the name of Sean Burke, his myspace page speaks for itself:www.myspace.com/canadianbassistAnd Rich Haller, a guitar player with a penchant for playing everything else under the sun while he's at it.www.myspace.com/rwhallerWe will be playing gigs this summer and beyond as the Rick Hayes Acoustic Trio. Come out and listen to some good songs and musicians that make them sing.My website is www.rickhayes.caI edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

I like to bicycle along the canal at night, go to see movies at the theatre, read science fiction, and discover magazine, and frequent the open stage at Rasputin's Folk Cafe in Ottawa.

I'd like to meet:

Warm, gentle souls, and Johnny Cash.

Music:

I am a fan of Johnny Cash from the time he wrote his first song to the day he passed on to whatever comes next.I also like Kris Kristofferson (met him!), Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, and Charlie Gardner. Great songwriters.I like Waylon Jennings, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, The Band, Harry Hibbs, Ron Hynes, Kiss, CCR, The Beatles, AND The Rolling Stones, Green Day, Rita McNeil, The Rankin Family, Great Big Sea, Neil Young, Roger Miller, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Jamie Clarke, Van Morrison, Charlie Pride, John Prine, Gillian Welch, The Pogues, and I could probably go on for a long time, but I won't. You get the idea. There isn't much I don't like in the way of music, as long as the song is good, and the performance is its equal.Here are a few songs I like that might be public domain, in any case I don't know who wrote them.The Star of Logy Bay, The Blacksmith, If Those Lips Could Only Speak...I love to hear Danny Boy if the right person is singiing it, and incidentally the right person ain't me (sigh).I love to hear Amazing Grace, but especially on the bagpipes.I like gospel music, but songs like the country legends would sing.

Movies:

Anything with Jack Nicholson in it, like Chinatown. Other movies: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Negotiator, Rio Bravo, Planes Trains and Automobiles, True Grit, Willie Nelson's 70th Birthday Party, The Big Lebowski, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, among others.

Television:

Star Trek The Original Series, TNG is not bad. Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, the Cosby Show, and Three's Company. I don't watch TV these days although I have seen a couple of episodes of Boston Legal.

Books:

Ender's Game (and its sequels), Singularity, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Almost everything Douglas Adams ever wrote. His best book was The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul as far as I'm concerned. Both of Johnny Cash's bio's. A few Star Trek novels. I haven't read anything of substance in a long time, other than text books and such.

Heroes:

My brother Shawn.

My Blog

Mr. Van Zandt

Sang Pancho and Lefty for years and only lately have I heard some of his other songs. Genius, the man was a genius. "...and it seemed to me that the sunshine walked beside her...". G...
Posted by Rick Hayes on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:24:00 PST

THE Cantankerous man.

This will be a sporadic thing, or I may never write here again. I'd like to say that I am incredibly grateful for my band members. Sean, and Rich are top musicians, and they're laid back t...
Posted by Rick Hayes on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:18:00 PST