January 22, 2015--Rich O'Toole, Never Gonna Quit

Artist:  Rich O'Toole

Song:  Never Gonna Quit

Album:  Jaded (2014)

You know, there isn't a whole lot out there when you look for Rich O'Toole's biography on the internet, but the man has been around for a while now.  He started about seven years ago with the release of his debut album, "Seventeen".  He now has five albums, the latest one, "Jaded", was released just last year in March of 2014.

Rich has had a number of top ten hits on the Texas music charts and shows no signs of slowing as "Jaded", the track the album was named for, makes it's way up the ranks.  On his second album, "In A Minute or 2" he sang a duet with Josh Abbott, lead singer and songwriter of the Josh Abbott Band (whom I love dearly).  The name of that track is "Ay Dios Mio".

Rich has opened for Willie Nelson and Josh Abbott.  This Houston native has even taken his Country-Rock style to California, where he penned and recorded "Jaded".  His songs have a definite personal touch with fun melodies.  He's a very story-oriented songwriter, as all of his songs seem to have distinct story to tell.

O'Toole has a passion for his work and a love for performing.  He said in an interview once, "If I didn't love playing city after city so much, I wouldn't do it."  He thrives off of writing and playing music.  Five albums in less than seven years proves that and I'm sure we can expect to hear more from Rich for years to come.

I hope you liked the song.  Let me know what you think!

--kk