Hi, I’m Rick Fontaine. I’m a music maker currently residing in Dallas, Texas. When I’m not busy in my home studio working on my next album, I enjoy playing guitar with my friends around the north Texas area.

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The madness first began when I got a guitar on my 16th birthday, but I really didn’t start getting serious about learning to play until college, when I basically spent my days woodshedding whenever I didn’t have class. I joined my first band, Davenport, with some high school buddies of mine when we were in our early twenties. We played around Deep Ellum and beyond, including the legendary Club Dada, where - for whatever reason - they liked us enough to give us a residency. After Davenport ran its course, I formed Back To Blue with singer/songwriter Eric Jordan. We enjoyed some mild success, and were fortunate enough to be the unofficial “house band” at the House Of Blues in Dallas, where we opened for several national acts on the main stage. We were even booked to play two nights at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas. We recorded three albums  of original material, where I acted as mixing engineer and co-producer. But “all things must pass”, as they say, and we disbanded in 2015.

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On my own, I’ve self-released two full-length albums: 2011’s “Electric Fences” and 2018’s “Muscle Memories”. Both albums were fully written (with a couple exceptions), performed, and produced on my own.

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My playing has been likened in the past to Santana and my singing to Jim Morrison. (I have no idea why, but I’ll take it!) Personally, I think my stuff sounds more like Morrissey (if he were a Texan) fronting a Beatles tribute band with David Gilmour’s second cousin playing lead guitar.  As far as my guitar influences go, I love George Harrison, The Edge, David Gilmour, Johnny Marr, Mike Campbell, Jimmy Page and Steve Howe of Yes (though his playing is so far above my head that I don’t know if I can truly count him as an influence). Vocally, I have a fairly limited range but I tend to take my cues from singers like Bono and Dave Gahan.

These days, when life and “adulting” permit, I keep myself busy writing and recording my own songs - but my heart truly lies in performing. I try to get out and gig as often as possible with my friends in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.