Oftentimes sacrificing his craft for the sake of putting bread on the table, Jamie worked in construction for several of his early Nashville years.
Jamie eventually found his way to Music City’s Curb Records where, as a staff writer, he wrote with the industry’s finest. Developing a rugged signature sound that was perfect for honky-tonks and bars, he found himself playing 100 shows a year, making fifty dollars per night. At the age of four, he got his first glimpse of audience approval while performing from the top of his mother’s piano bench during all-night gospel revivals.īy the time he was 18, Jamie’s music had expanded. Pleasing a crowd has always come easy for the Shawnee native. He’s lived enough, loved and lost enough and defied the odds enough to write songs that relate to hearts of all ages.
At home anywhere there’s cold beer and a sawdust dance floor, Jamie is successfully climbing the country music ladder, one rung at a time- and he’s doing it his way.įrom his first single, “Don’t Try To Find Me” (2002), to his most recent hit, “She’s Cold As That Beer She’s Drinkin’” (2011), Jamie’s popularity continues to soar. Rarely do you find a singer with a voice that delivers emotions as convincingly as Jamie Richards.
