About
Ozark Roots Run Deep
The preservation of American cultural history through music is one way to inform, educate and captivate current and future generations. The Ozark Anthology is just such a resource. The people, places and other subject matter comprising this body of music, serves to preserve this vanishing legacy.
In the early 1800’s, a migration of mostly itinerate farm families began to move from Appalachia westward to Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Soon after, the government began offering low priced land to these mid-south migrants to move on to the Ozarks and settle. This raw land was unfriendly, and the people struggled, but these hardy souls found a way. In the shadow of these mountains, their legacy resides. The Ozarks are a cultural enigma, a place of wilderness and beauty, strife and tranquility.
The Ozarks are a place good people call home.
A Modern Hill Country Crusade
The Ozark Anthology songs resurrect the forgotten characters and events of the past using a modern hill country sound all its own. These songs present Ozark people in a light of courage and determination. The audience will be whisked away on a musical journey and enjoy a new-found appreciation and perspective for the people of the Ozarks.
American Roots Meets Ozark Dirt
A lifelong journeyman musician from the Missouri river bottoms, a published songwriter and a touring musician, Rick Gibson has emerged as a musical orator for those who have grown up on Ozark dirt forging his own roots-rock-americana style approach to Ozark music. Heavily influenced by his gritty guitar tone, alternate tunings, and vivid lyrical stories, his music is a true “hip-billy” experience, self-described as “American roots, meets Ozark dirt”.