Richard Lynch lives and breathes traditional country music in the style of Merle Haggard, George Strait and Waylon Jennings. At the same time he offers up such pearls as Hurtin Cheatin Lyin Country Song, asking, somewhat plaintively:
I gotta know right now, it ain’t just me who needs a hurtin’ cheatin’ lyin’ country song,
with some real emotion I can sing along. Would it really be a sin to make country music sad again?
It’s pure country infused with hints of western swing, honky tonk and outlaw country. He has been making just that kind of music for over three decades, having inherited the love of country music from his father, who was also a musician. He lives the lifestyle too, owning and running Keepin’ It Country Farm with his wife. This is the location for his fundraising benefits for veterans under the banner of the Love Tattoo Foundation, of which he is co-founder. Lynch is a very traditional country star, with a deep and abiding love of the land, the lifestyle, the music, God and his fellow Americans. When he’s not making music, he designs and builds barns. He looks the part too, in traditional western attire of jeans, shirt, cowboy boots and Stetson. Lynch and his band really couldn’t be any more country if they tried.
His name is likely to be familiar to country fans the world over, as he has enjoyed domestic and international success with hits on both radio airplay and streaming services. He has scored #1 hits on iTunes, New Music Weekly radio lists, IndieWorld and Roots Music Report as well as having a Christian Music Weekly Top 20 single. He appears regularly in country music magazines, on radio and TV. After this many decades, Lynch has also racked up an impressive list of duets including recording with Ronnie McDowell, Leona Williams, and Rhonda Vincent. He co-wrote My Heart and Yours on his latest album with gospel singer Katelyne Adams. A member of the Independent Country Music Hall of Fame, Lynch is also inducted into the Ohio Country Music Hall of Fame.
His latest release, the aptly named My Guitar Drips Country, came out in February 2021 and contains 12 songs which he wrote or co-wrote including his tribute to Doug Supernaw, who died in November 2020, and the song quoted from above, Hurtin Cheatin Lyin Country Song. The title of the album was another Doug Supernaw quote, but it describes Richard Lynch and his music in a phrase.
–RC
