EMINENCE ENDORSEE, RICH ECKHARDT, RELEASES "COTTAGE CITY FIREHOUSE"

The long awaited sophomore release from one of Nashville’s most respected guitarists shows off fresh sides to this musician’s distinctive style.  Shifting effortlessly from the sky scraping "Bldg. 55" to the burning title cut. Cottage City Firehouse covers a wide range of musical innovation.

On Cottage City Rich brought in some of his favorite musicians to blow on the embers and make his music blaze. Close friend and Bassist Sean O’Brian Smith ( Billy Ray Cyrus, Rodney Atkins, Solo Artist) lends his Groove-ness to several of the tracks. Ringing a Second Alarm Rich also called in Miranda Lambert Bassist Aden Bubeck to play on “Chicken Fingers“. For the Piano duties Rich borrowed Shannon Wickline from Country Star James Otto and only had to turn around to find Toby Keith’s powerhouse Horn section Roman Dudok, Carl Murr and Willie Roy Jr. to blister the title track. He additionally relied once again on Keith’s Hammond master Rex Mauney to spin another stellar Organ performance.

Firehouse includes nine brand new songs and features Rich’s intoxicating cover of The Champs classic hit Tequila.

You can pick up a copy of his new CD "Cottage City Firehouse" online at richeckhardt.com and cdbaby.com.

05/04/09