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AlbumsBaby Lightning Baby Lightning, featuring Richard Bicknell and band members Steve Boyes and Scott Patton, was recorded at Exocet Studios. Scott Patton produced the band's third album, which was released in 2003. Singers who joined them on the album include Eric Taylor, Denice Franke, David Olney, Kelly Hogan and Anne Boston. Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor produced several songs on the album. Taylor came out of the Houston music scene that produced Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith and the late Townes Van Zandt. He's a two-time winner at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival competition and his work has been recorded by Griffith and Lovett. Singer-songwriter Denice Franke, also from Texas, recorded and toured with Doug Hudson as Hudson and Franke for about 12 years, as well as performing background vocals for Nanci Griffith, Robert Earl Keen and Hal Ketchum. As a solo performer, she has produced two critically acclaimed albums. Over an impressive professional career spanning four decades, Nashville singer-songwriter David Olney has built a reputation as a performing songwriter with a sharp literary mind. His songs have been covered by such singers as Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. The late, great Townes Van Zandt famously compared his songwriting to that of Mozart, Bob Dylan and Lightnin' Hopkins.; Kelly Hogan, formerly of The Jody Grind and The Rock*A*Teens, a longtime Atlanta singer now living in Chicago, sings harmony on the album, along with Anne Boston of the Swimming Pool Q's. MayflowerEric Taylor and David Olney were also featured on Bicknell's second album, Mayflower, along with Katy Moffatt and Robin and Linda Williams. The album includes songs written by Bicknell, plus songs by Steve Forbert, Patty Griffin, Olney, Townes Van Zandt and Robin and Linda Williams. Taylor joins Bicknell in a duet on Taylor's song, "Dean Moriarty," which he produced along with Van Zandt's "St. John the Gambler." Olney plays the bartender to Bicknell's Barrymore on Olney's song, "Barrymore Remembers." Both influential singer-songwriters joined Bicknell as special guests for the September 1998 CD release concert for Mayflower. Sometimes BlueBicknell's first album, Sometimes Blue, was released in 1994 and received airplay on adult album alternative stations throughout the country. Reviews of Sometimes Blue included, "With just a hint of a twang, Bicknell sings about things that matter. Imagine taking a ride in a big convertible in some wide-open place."
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