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Artist
Richie Reinholdt
12+ albums
Alt-countrycountryfolkamericanafolk-rock
about
RICHIE REINHOLDT was born at the Yokosuka,Japan Naval base in 1953. He picked up the guitar at age 11 and was soon playing in local bands through junior high and high school ( The Copyrights, The Agents, Otis Yearre) Leaving the desert in 1972, Richie spent the next 4 years in Eugene, Oregon, doing the Eugene thing....Tipi's, communes, busking at Saturday Market. After his father passed away in 1975, Richie moved to South Lake Tahoe to be near his Mother. While there, he met and joined The Live Wire Choir and toured the northwest for 4 years in a green, 1945 Flexible bus. They were signed to a one-album deal with Helios Records, based in Missoula, Montana and recorded the "Blue" album. When L.W.C. disbanded in 1979, Richie left California and moved to Missoula. After spending part of the '80's between Boise, Kauai and Montana, Richie settled in Missoula Mt and toured with local bands such as "The Skanksters" (1986-1988), The Blazers"(1989-1991),"The Dreadbeats"(1991-1993) and was lucky enough to tour the beautiful Adariatic countries of Slovenia, Italy and Austria of Southern Central Europe with "The Psyclones" (1993) "The Shadows" (1994) "The Wolfrats (1995) and "The Sundogz" (1996). Richie has been doing the "side-man" thing for a number of years with such local favorites as "The Cory Heydon Band" (1997-2000) www.coryheydon.com "The Tom Catmull Band Band" (2000-2003) www.tomcatmull.com www.larryhirshberg.com, http://www.larryhirshberg.com/ and Justin Lee and the Powers
