Rodney Rice knows just how to capture the fleeting glimmers of an emotional moment in life and turn them into songs that evoke our own feelings of despair and hope, loss and love. Rice delivers his lyrics with a knowing nod and wink and a twinkle of the eye to the difficulties we encounter in our daily lives, and creates memorable characters in his songs whose foibles remind us of folks we know. As he says, “Music is a common language that reaches all and brings people from worlds apart together.” Rice cannily matches music with lyrics, pairing a glimpse of a world turned upside down with a jaunty New Orleans jazz swing melody or an ode to young love with a lively country shuffle.

Rodney Rice is a troubadour, and he turns his experiences and his feelings into songs. The native West Virginian observes that “music comes from life experiences, fears, anger, sympathy, love, confusion, depression. It’s why it brings people together. When it came to Rodney Rice, Rice says he combined “autobiographical lyrics and creative imagination.” Reflecting on his songwriting, he points out that he often starts with feeling which transforms into a lyrical line and then pulls together a melody around it.

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