They Call Me Rico is the new solo project by Madcaps singer Frédéric Pellerin, also known as Rico. With a decade of shows across Canada and Europe under his belt, this side project brings him. Home page of They Call Me Rico, an americana artist from Lyon.

Rico sometimes evokes a kind of George Thorogood with a beard, solitary and on amphetamines. The hoarse inhabits his voice of rogomme and the saturation dominates the sound of his steel guitar played in slide. The blues is not short of relief.

The wanted posters posted around town describe him as a One Man Band. One man alone against the world. A loner who faces the crowd with six strings in his hand, a nervous slide, blowing a harmonica between two verses and the heel of his boot hitting the floor to anchor the beat.

After three albums, he has come down from the Rocky Mountains of the north, where tree branches bend under the snow, to reach the Mexican border and its infinite horizon. A new musical adventure in cinemascope fuelled by the hot and arid plains of a Spaghetti Western. Where there is no good or evil. No black, no white. Only patches of gray. Where the rugged, dark and possessed voice of Rico blends folk melodies, powerful blues and intense rock.