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| RON & HIS MUSIC Ron is a singer, songwriter, musician from Jackson Michigan. He has played guitar and drums since the age of 14 and recently started playing the piano, mandolin and harmonica. While he loves entertaining and performing live, his passion has always been songwriting. For the past decade with the help of his lovely wife Donna, together they have written many country and country/rock songs. He is a registered BMI writer and currently has four originals published with Alley Roads Music of Nashville Tennessee and four more originals published with Country Barber Productions of Phoenix Arizona. For the better part of the 90s he was an independent recording artist on the Nashville lable "Castle Records". His Nashville CD "How Many Teardrops Must Fall", is available for purchase in his store and pictures of his Nashville recording session are available for view under his Nashville Photos section. It was a lifetime experience working and recording with the same musicians that play sessions with Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Alabama, George Jones and the like. He has had many opportunities to perform his music at some of the same venues as the legends such as Loretta Lynn's Ampitheater in Hurricane Mills Tennessee, Buck Lake Ranch in Angola Indiana where he was allowed to autograph the dressing room wall next to Johnny Cash, the Jackson County Fair as well as the Cascade's Ampitheater. He has performed the past several years with his band "Sidewinder" but recently has taken time off from performing to work on his songwriting and his new CD. His new CD titled "Still Alive and Pickin" was released in May of 2008 and includes the talent of many local musicians. He would love to hear what you think of his music and his site, or just tell him about your music, so be sure and sign his guest book before you leave and stop back often. |
RON'S MUSIC INFLUENCES Ron's number one musical influence was also his number one fan, his mother Corinnia. She first put a guitar in his hands at the age of 8 and taught him his first three chords. She was first cousins with country music legend Loretta Lynn and grew up singing gospel music in church and around the house. She also took Ron to his first concert at Frontier City in Brooklyn Michigan, to see Loretta perform. She passed away in 2005 but to this day is still a big influence on his music. His next big musical influence was his mom's brother, Ron's uncle Sol Burchett Jr. He was a southern preacher as well as a gospel singer and songwriter and during Ron's early teenage years produced and hosted a gospel music show on WIBM Radio every Sunday. He would come over to the farm and set up his Montgomery Ward reel to reel recorder with a couple of small microphones and together with Ron's mom and dad, record a few gospel songs for the Sunday show. Eventually Ron was recruited to play the Bass Guitar and the influence from his uncle Sol is still with him today when he writes and records in his own studio. His last real big musical influence was his father Raymond. Ron's father always owned a guitar and besides playing it around the house, he traveled with Ron's mother and Sol Jr. and played gospel music at churches throughout the Midwest. Just watching him play was a big influence on Ron and gave him the inspiration to polish his talent in the field of music with hopes of playing like him someday. As for famous influences he really enjoyed the music of the 60s and 70s. In highschool he played at the local area highschool dances on a Friday night after the game. He played everything from the Beatles to Grand Funk Railroad, but a few of his favorites were bands such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, Bread and The Monkees. |
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| READ THE LETTER WRITTEN BY MIKE DAVIS OF WJCO COUNTRY RADIO AND HIS OPINION OF RON HYDEN AS AN ARTIST, SONGWRITER AND PERSON. THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN IN 1994 CLICK HERE OR ON LETTER TO VIEW |
| A LETTER ABOUT RON FROM WJCO RADIO |