Rick Fontaine was born in Fort Ouachuca, Arizona. His formative years were spent as an “Army Brat”, picking up every year or so to move to another town in another state. By age 10, he had lived in four different U.S. states and spent a year in Germany. On his sixteenth birthday, he received his first guitar- a Travis – one of those guitars “guaranteed not to crack”. He took a total of two guitar lessons, cleaning his instructor’s toilets as “payment”. Needless to say, Rick decided to teach himself. His first real foray into the music business was with Davenport, a band he started along with his high school classmates in Dallas, TX. It would prove to be a pivotal experience. Rick got the “bug”, as they say. He knew he finally found something to be passionate about. Davenport ran it’s course after 4 years, however, and Rick found himself without a musical outlet. Until, that is, fate brought him to the tiny town of Waxahachie, just south of Dallas where he met Eric Jordan and formed Back To Blue.