Taken from an article from the April 2005 issue of the Lake George Mirror
by Anthony F. Hall

"I grew up in Hague," he recounts. "When summer hit, we got some culture, but not enough to hurt us. I buried myself in my room in winters and learned to play guitar. I listened to the Beatles and the Stones, and I worked backward toward the music's roots.

Those traditions have found their way to the bands he's led for thirty years, including, most famously, the T-Bonz. They began playing together 25 years ago, and reunite every summer at The View at Indian Kettles. The T-Bonz draw even bigger crowds than they did when they played at the Cave, when Bolton's father was Hague's supervisor and his mother the town's post master. "We're a great dance band," he says. "We mix country with rhythm and blues and reggae. We did covers, but we'd mix them up. At this stage of life, we play the music we like. And we never know who's going to show up to sit in with us."

His other bands include Big Medicine and Rick Bolton and the Dwyer Sisters, which includes his wife, artist Sharon Bolton, and her sister Molly.

In 2004 Rick released his first CD, I'm Only In It For The Beer which includes Big Medicine members past and present.

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