GROUP OF THE YEAR
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winning jingle for Foto-Mat. Rickey
also played on studio recordings with Sonny Turner, Anita Ward, Bill
Pinkey, and Clifford Curry. Interest from record labels led Rickey to
move to Nashville in 1993. Once in Nashville, Rickey began working with
artists Donna Fargo, Rufus Thomas, Junior Walker, Sam Moore, and Billy
Preston. Rickey has performed throughout the US, Canada and Europe,
and has become well known in Nashville for his outstanding musical abilities.
In 1994 he played with “The Amy Watkins Band” as they won
the Nashville Music City Unsigned Blues Band Competition, in 1997 with
another band “The Blues Boyz” won The Pete’s Wicked
Ale Blues Competition winning over 35 Nashville area bands. In 1999
Rickey co-wrote “Plumber Man” with Clifford Curry and over
the next two years co-wrote produced and played on “She Shot A
Hole In My Soul Again” also with Clifford. In 2002 Rickey joined
“The SugarBees” a Beach Boogie and Blues Band based in S.C.,
as lead vocalist. Rickey performed with the band live and recorded with
them on several projects. Their cd, “My Baby’s Got It”
reached #5 on the Rhythm and Beach charts and the single “Hold
You To Your Promise” reached #3. A second single was release by
the band entitled “Give It To A Good Man” on the Ripete
Records compilation Cd “Beach Party” , this cd reached #1
on the Rhythm and Beach charts, and charted at #4 as a single. In February
2003 Rickey teamed up with Greenville SC keyboard player Bobby Simmons,
also previously with The SugarBees, and formed The Rickey Godfrey Band.
In the spring of 2003 Rickey released a duet “Never Let You Go”
with Myrtle Beach singer Andrea Keesee which reached the top 20. During
the summer of 2003 The Rickey Godfrey Band recorded a new single “Can’t
Change My Heart” released on Mossland Records, which was voted
the #1 breakout song of Fall SOS. “Can’t Change My Heart”
reached #1 on the Beach charts in the winter of 2004. In November 2003
Rickey and Andrea Keesee won a Cammy Award for “Best Duo”
with the song “Never Let You Go”. The band is currently
performing live throughout the Southeast, and Rickey has just released
a new CD entitled “Soul Sensations” on the Mossland Record
Label, which contains all 4 hit songs as well as 7 other favorite cuts.
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Congratulations
to the Rickey Godfrey Band!The Rickey Godfrey Band won 4 awards at the 2004
Carolina Beach Music Awards Show in Myrtle Beach, SC! The following
awards were awarded at the Alabama Theater on Sunday, November
20, 2004:
