Rick Shea

Rick Shea's new album
Smoke Tree Road

Reviews:

I Dig Roots Music
There’s a certain kind of record that doesn’t announce itself so much as it settles in … it leans into the long view—memory, miles traveled, and the accumulated weight of a life spent in and around song.
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Americana Highways
 Smoke Tree Road is a warm, unhurried, and deeply human collection that showcases Shea’s strengths as a songwriter, guitarist, and storyteller … a record shaped by experience, reflection, and a quiet assurance that never needs to raise its voice to be heard.
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No Depression
This album is among the best of his well-crafted albums over three decades. He calls up the best of the legends who have paved the way with echoes of Merle Haggard’s Tulare Dust.
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Love & Desperation

MOJO
An instant familiarity, four stars ****
Sylvie Simmons
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Americana Highways
Rick Shea has long been one of the no kidding singers who roam the Golden State, finding a spot in local night spots and then turning on the sauce. His audience expects songs from the hard side of the tracks, not dressed up too pretty but with just enough sizzling Telecaster guitar leads and a rhythm section that sounds like it could handle itself at the drop ofan insult in an alley fight where the police never come.
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Lonesome Highway
A welcome addition to Shea's canon of fine albums ... made with care attention and love
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San Diego Troubadour
There's not a weak song on this collection ... Shea may be southern California's best kept secret.
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