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Rick Wilkerson

About Me

Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and raised in Nashville, Tn since 1994, Rick Wilkerson is an up and coming new musician in the Nashville area. His experience and energy on stage, precision in the studio, and teaching knowledge make him a valuable asset to any musical group. Rick has had the opportunity to travel in and out of the country with marching and teaching rudimental percussion receiving; 1 wgi world class gold medal, 2 top 3 dci drumline finishes, and shared the stage with performing artist Carmen as well as Keith Urban!In addition to rudimental drumming he has played drumset for more than 12 years! Playing for artists/groups such as:Reggie Wooten & friends, Mike Anderson, Traci Root, The MTSU Steel Pan Ensemble 1 (4 semesters), The MTSU Commercial Ensemble (4 semesters), The Tony Hartman Trio (Jazz), The Great Barrier Reefs and Tony, Andrew Elwood, Aaron Cox, Biscuits & Gravy, Kyle Cruz, Alexis Webber, Antjuan Johnson, Chris keller, Hannah Phillips, The Absoulution, Living Word Church, Mt. Bethel Church, and Born Again Church You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

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Member Since: 29/06/2006
Band Members:
Influences: Dede Holt, Chester Thompson, Marcus Finnie, Derico Watson, Nioshi Jackson, BAM, Pat Metheny, Alicia Keyes, Jonathan Butler, Kim Burrell, Herbie Hancock, Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colauita?, Gospel Bass players, Maestro and Candace Lightford, BJ, My sister, My father, and many more musicians and drummers worldwide...
Sounds Like: A whole lot of groove....
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Cruisin'

After much deliberation (and sweating) I secured a spot on one of the ships of the Carnival Cruise Fleet. The ship is called the Carnival Victory. I will be leaving on May 17th so hopefully I can say ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 15:28:00 GMT

The holiday season....

This past christmas season was a good one. Great fellwoship with family and friends new and old, sitting around until new years, a great new years gig, a fun first date, and a birthday....good times.
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Been awhile

It has been awhile since I last wrote one of these. I have recently updated my music. I think Ive better captured not only three genres of music Ive recorded in the studio, but also some tracks I have...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:15:00 GMT

New tracks

New studio tracks. I had the opportunity to do a couple songs in the studio this semester. "All I do" by of course Stevie Wonder and "josie" by Steely Dan. Take a listen!!!! P.S. No vocals on josie,...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:21:00 GMT

New Music Again

All the tracks you hear have been done this past semester with artists or just influenced from some artist I like. Everything from a different genre just to show the span of what I can do for whoever ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:57:00 GMT

New songs....

 Aight so I got an idea for an album and those have been put to words and music but the singing will come later...I have some new songs on the page that I want everyone to listen to and tell me w...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:41:00 GMT

New Song!

Written by Alexis and Antjuan. We just went in and laid the foundation but you get the basic idea..
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:10:00 GMT

The music

A bit about the music... Its called steel pan. Im playin drum set though. The first song was with my high school and ensemble and the second with Middle Tennessee State University. I will put up some ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:38:00 GMT