* Even before “Clean Getaway” Byrd was playing music at benefit shows and in treatment facilities in New Jersey, which he says taught him a great deal about how to craft the songs. (‘Sobering Times’) is hopefully another healing took for people who are struggling.” It sounds like me.’ That gave me the enthusiasm to move word and find a way to combine rock ‘n’ roll and recovery and make it helpful.
I get reactions from people around the world, saying ‘Oh, you told my story.
“It’s the reaction I get from people that are either struggling with all kinds of addictions or people that are already in recovery, where they’re identifying with the lyrics. * While he describes “Clean Getaway” and “Sobering Times” as “Ricky Byrd rock ‘n’ roll,” Byrd does feel a calling to incorporate aspects of recovery into his music now. And now it’s baseball season, so I can watch every Yankees game I can.” So I’m catching upon every Netflix show ever made. “Obviously a lot of gigs I would be doing this year and last have been canceled, and I can’t really go out and promote this, live for the foreseeable future. But it’s nonetheless “frustrating” to have an album out and, at least to date, nowhere to really play it. “We got right to the finish line right when everything shut down,” he notes. * Byrd, 64, says by phone that “Sobering Times” was largely finished before the Covid-19 pandemic. He’s also active in the recovery field as a coach and counselor, and his latest solo albums - 2017’s “Clean Getaway” and last year’s “Sobering Times” - continue that work in song, using Byrd’s experiences to inform the music… It was also during that time, in 1987, that he got sober.īyrd’s other credits include recording and touring with the Who’s Roger Daltrey, Paul McCartney, Ian Hunter, Alice Cooper and many others. Byrd (nee Bird) was part of Joan Jett’s Blackhearts from 1981-91, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2015. The guitarist and songwriter started young, growing up in the Bronx and - after seeing the Beatles and Rolling Stones play on “The Ed Sullivan Show” - starting his own band Susan. Ricky Byrd may be a spokesman for recovery, but rock ‘n’ roll remains an addiction he’s happy to maintain.
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