Rick Foster Explained

Rick Foster is a guitarist and arranger who lives in the Days Creek, Oregon area, who plays classical and popular music, but who is most closely associated with Christian music.^[1]

Biography

Foster began playing Hawaiian guitar when he was 10 years old. By age 12, he was playing electric guitar in a surf-rock band. At eighteen years of age, he was teaching guitar. When he was unable to find arrangements for guitar of his favorite hymns, he decided to create a repertoire.^[2]

Playing in classical style, but with country flavoring,^[3] he has recorded several albums, appearing on Bread & Honey Records, Chapel Records and Edensong Records. He has been nominated for a Dove Award by the Gospel Music Association.,^[4]

His arrangements have been featured by Chet Atkins^[5] and Christopher Parkening.^[6]

His guitar arrangements of hymns are published by Rick Foster Edensong, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine and Mel Bay Publications.

Discography

• Favorite Hymns for Classic Guitar (Bread & Honey 102)(Also "Hymns for Classic Guitar")(Edensong 602)
• More Hymns for Classic Guitar (Bread & Honey 118)(Edensong 618)
• Inspirational Guitar at Its Best (Chapel/Bridge 2327)(Bread & Honey 325)(Also 2 in 1 "Inspirational Guitar at Its Best" and "Sacred Classic Guitar")(Edensong 616)
• Sacred Classic Guitar (Edensong 609)(Also 2 in 1 "Inspirational Guitar at Its Best" and "Sacred Classic Guitar")(Edensong 616)
• Season of Joy (Edensong 600) (Moody Monthly Instrumental Album of the Year)
• Sacred Duos for Guitar and Violin (Edensong ESCD 605)
• "Eternal Guitar" (Edensong ESCD 612)
• "Best of Rick Foster—Close to Heaven" (Edensong ESCD 614)
• "Rick Foster's Remembrance of Chet Atkins and his guitars" (Edensong ESCD 624)
• "Faith is the Reason" (Edensong ESCD 620)

External links

• Official site of Rick Foster

Notes and References

1. Baker, Paul, “Gospel Music - Bridging the Secular Waters: Contemporary Beat” Billboard, September 27, 1980 page G-29.
2. Davie, Margaret News Journal (Daytona Beach, FL), "Innovator interprets sacred music for guitar", Mar 16, 1996, page 51.
3. 1982. Guitar & Lute. Guitar & Lute. 20 . 27 . Galliard Press. June 4, 2013.
4. Orlando Sentinel, February 2, 1996, page 4.
5. News: Guitarist Rick Foster to play April 11 . (Yavapai County, AZ) Daily Courier . April 7, 1995. 5B. June 3, 2013.
6. 1989 . Rick Foster Sacred Classic Guitar. Frets. 11 . 1–8 . 70 . GPI Publications . June 4, 2013.