Don Richmond has been a professional performing musician for more than thirty-five years. He regularly performs and records on more than a dozen instruments including electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, violin, viola, dobro, pedal steel guitar, banjo, harmonica, accordion, trumpet and percussion and is an award-winning songwriter. He has released 5 solo CDs, 4 other albums with the Colorado band Tumbleweed earlier in his career, 3 with the Taos, New Mexico based group Hired Hands, and a CD release in 2004 with the New Mexico based group The Rifters. Don owns and operates Howlin' Dog Records, which has recorded and released numerous other recordings by many local, regional, and national artists. Don has also been an Artist-In-Residence and Aesthetic Institute instructor in Colorado Council of the Arts’ Art in Education program. Don created and recorded the music for the public television documentary Roy Bedichek’s Vanishing Frontier, the independent short film Hexama, Hexama, as well as the highly acclaimed civil-rights documentary film We Did It All Ourselves, and recently finished work on another documentary score for a film on the plight of Katrina refugees titled Still Waiting – Life After Katrina, which aired nationally in the fall of 2007. Don is currently working on his sixth solo CD, tentatively titled Me and Everybody I Know. In late 2004, Don published a book on performance psychology and creativity titled Getting Your Music Past the Fear. He is also a regularly featured contributor on creativity to the nationally-syndicated radio program The Art of the Song.

Don Richmond CDs

Sort by: SKU Product Price Default See details Like Lazarus SKU: HDR-016 Like Lazarus is the first new singer-songwriter CD from Don Richmond since No Man's Land in 2002.It features 13 songs, 12 of which were written or co-written by Don. Its themes run from social issues to love songs, both personal and universal, to growth and awareness, but are affected throughout ... Market price: $18.98 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details Roots and Branches SKU: HDR-018 Roots and Branches - This record celebrates the common roots and the wide-spreading branches of the musical lives of three brothers – Jim, Ed, and Don Richmond. It represents both a rejoining of individual pathways taken down three lifetimes of music and at the same time an honoring of a common ... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details Mirage SKU: HDR-105 This is Don’s first solo album, released in 1989. It contains twelve of his original songs and begins to define his acoustic-oriented folk-rock-and-bluegrass production style and instrumentations. Although this is a stripped-down 4-track production, it contains some of his best loved songs inspi... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details Story SKU: HDR-106 This is Don’s second solo release. Story continues primarily in the acoustic direction and features thirteen of Don’s excellent and thoughtful compositions, with a theme loosely centered on relationships. Justin Mitchell of The Rocky Mountain News said of Story, “Don Richmond’s sensitive, smooth ... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details A Lot In Common SKU: HDR-108 This is Don’s third solo recording, released in May of 1995. It continues in the folk vein, with a few deviations toward blues and rock along the way. Themes of social and personal growth run through several of the songs. Don gathered players from Hired Hands and some of his old Tumbleweed bandma... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details Instrument SKU: HDR-110 This release (1999) from Don is a bit of a departure from his earlier singer-songwriter style releases in that Instrument is completely instrumental. It is a collection of all original acoustic tunes displaying Don's expertise on guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, Weissenborn slide, and banjeaurin... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details No Man's Land SKU: HDR-114 This is Don Richmond's fifth solo CD release, from 2002. Says Don - “No Man's Land is centered around a group of songs that are sort of 'landscape' songs - songs that talk about things inspired by the land, particularly my home in the San Luis Valley.” This CD has had four songs in regular rotati... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details Still Waiting - Life After Katrina Soundtrack SKU: HDR-ST1 This CD features music from the soundtrack of the documentary film "Still Waiting - Life After Katrina" that aired on PBS stations across the US in late 2007. The film is a powerful piece of work detailing the lives of a large extended family forced to leave their homes when Hurrican Katrina hit ... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list See details A Voyage of Such Nature - Acoustic Music in Celebration of the Pike Expedition SKU: HDR-TDR01 This is an instrumental CD project I recorded in 2006 with my friends Tom Munch of Pueblo and Rex Rideout of Conifer, Colorado. It is a tribute to the 200th anniversary of Zebulon Pike's expedition through Colorado in 1806 - 1807. The album is a collection of songs from the era of the expedition ... Market price: $18.95 Our price: $15.00 save 21% Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list