Ramblin' Ricky Tate is a Country Blues & Folk singer from Birmingham, Alabama. Ricky is a founding member of Jug Band Hall of Fame inductees the Steel City Jug Slammers and over the last decade has traveled far and wide singing from street corners to theater and every dive bar in between. Ricky sings ruckus filled bluegrass and lonesome blues with an over all dark sound.

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"My music came from a place of need. I was always obsessed with music and that lead me to touring and traveling around some at an early age as a drummer. When I started roaming the country with my friends I started playing washboard cause it was easy to carry and busk with. That opened the door to old jug band blues and bluegrass tunes folks were passing around on the busking circuit.

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When the band wasn't up to busking I had no income so I learned how to play guitar to feed myself and used the couple of chords I knew to make up my own words and thus began my street performance career..

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We started Steel City Jug Slammers in 2012 and in 2015 we got called up to be on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion. That was like the flood gate being opened for us."

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  Ricky has shared the stage with Old Crow Medicine Show, The Avett Brothers, The Devil Makes Three, Dom Flemons, Sierra Ferral, Molly Tuttle, Colter Wall, Rebirth Brass Band, Jim Kweskin, Blind Boy Paxton, John Cohen, R. Crumb, Pokey LaFarge, Bruce Molsky, Tejon Street Corner Thieves, Waydown Wanderers, Maria Muldaur, Jontavious Willis, Nick Shoulders, Early James, Rock Bottom String Band, Days n Daze, Holy Locust, Yes Ma'am, The Tillers, Tuba Skinny, Washboard Chaz, Hubby Jenkins,  Emi Sunshine, Vaden Landers, Reverend Peytons Nig Da,n Band, Joshua Quimby, The Local Honeys, and many more.

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Venues played include The Fitzgerald Theater for NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Alabama Theater, Lyric Theater, Jalopy Theater, Workplay, Turley Park, Blue Tavern, The Nick, The Merry Widow, Historic Myrtle Beach Train Depot, The Shakedown, The Grey Eagle, Palmer's Bar, Viking Bar, The Elbo Room, Bourbon & Branch, Kings, Barleycorn's, Red Light Cafe, Gypsy Sally's, Saturn Birmingham, Sarasota Historic Downtown Village, Black Market Bar, Iron City Birmingham, Trussville Entertainment District, Dave's Pub, The High Note, Highlands Taproom, Winnipeg Folk Festival, CU Roots Festival, Blue Earl, Copper Top Dive N Dine, Green Bar, Crestwood Tavern, Almonaster Alley, Sleepy Owl Brewing, Nacbar, Brennan's Irish Pub, Marty's PM, Marty's GM, Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, red Line Tap, Pabst Brewing, Hurricane's Sports Bar, Courtyard 280, Desert Island Supply Co., Wunderbar, Up North Bar, Blue Canoe, The Cabooze, Marble Ring,  9th Street Pub, Acme Feed & Seed, The Red Herring, The Rosebowl, Highbury Pub, Duke's Alehouse,  Old town Pub, Burn Em Brewing, 6th Street Dive, Malarkey's, The Plus, Mother Fool's, American Banjo Museum, Birthplace of Country Museum, Bus Bar, Union Terrace, Livery Beer Garden, Mom's Basement, Courtyard Alabaster, Buck Mulligans, Syndicate Lounge, Monotonia, Antique Archaeology, What's On 2nd, Sugarlands Distillery, Caldwell Tavern, Tuscaloosa Goverment Plaza, White Horse Black Mountain, Eugene Wine Cellars, Blue Plate Special, The Crimson Moon, The Basement, Bluetick Tavern, Cheaha Brewing, Good People Brewing,  Avondale Brewing, Iron City, Trimtab, Brick & Tin, Foobar, The Cobra, The Local Barber, The Peerless Saloon, AM Booth's Lumberyard, Pisgah Brewing, The Stone Fox, Melody Inn, Crafty Bastard, The Station at 19E, Roche Bar, Hi-Tone, Moe's BBQ, BCCO, Fairhope Brewing, Fleetwood's, Anodyne Coffee, New Deal Cafe, Blue Tavern, Tribble's Bar, Abita Brew Pub, Wild & Blue, Sam Bond's Garage, Riverwood Inn, Pensacola Bay Brewing, Slim's Downtown, Triple Nickel, DCtorium, Crow & Quill, Neptune's Parlor, Cambria Hotel Nashville, On The Rox, Red Light Cafe, Tallulah Brewing, Sugar Maple Fest, Great River Folk Fest, Sioux River Folk Fest, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Brooklyn Folk Fest, Ninth Street Pub, Barley's Maryville, Superfine, KGB Bar, The Sound Lounge, Saturn, The Golden Pony, Barley's Knoxville, Kegney's, Preservation Pub, Forager Brewery, Flea Off Market, Egremont Barn, Sunny's Bar Brooklyn, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, The 5 Spot, Music Record Shop, Local 46, 3 King's Tavern, Red Brick Bar, Boans On The Square, The Rougaroux, Gable Square Saloon, Southside Lounge, Club South, The Club Eats Highland, Vulcan Park, many more.

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Ricky is a member of the Jug Band Hall of Fame and has appeared on NPR, Animal Planet, PBS, as well as countless radio specials like Jerry Springer's Podcast.

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Ricky is proudly endorsed by Gold Tone Music Group, Ear Trumpet Labs, Shubb Capos,and GHS strings.

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