biography
In 2003, Patrick Baricault, French country singer & guitarist, decides to form a country band "C.C.Rider", and very quickly it becomes one of the bands the most popular in France. From 2003 to the end of 2007, Patrick with C.C.Rider plays in more over three hundred and twenty country concerts or festivals. During this four years, two cd are realesed; "Howdy" in 2004, and "Open Spaces" in 2006. For this cd, Patrick records his first country song of his own composition: "Gone To Ride"....... In 2007, though he is still playing with C.C.Rider, Patrick decides to set-up a new country band with two musicians who played with him in the past: William Genouilleau on bass and Carlos Ribeiro on drums. Patrick plans to play in concert with this new band at the beginning of the next year. A name is found for this new band, it'll be called "Range Heroes". They start to rehearse, and quickly two other musicians join the band, François Vesque (acoustic guitar & backing vocal) and Anne-Sophie (fiddle); she has just joined C.C.Rider, but she decides to follow Patrick in his future band. During this year, Patrick and this new band also do some recording session in anticipation of a cd realese planned for the beginning of the next year. In november and december, Patrick & Range heroes play some warm-up shows and in the 31st of december they play their first official live appearance in Coutras (Gironde) for the New Year's Eve. Since then, Patrick with Range Heroes continue playing their country music all over France...... 2008 february, CD realese: "Here We Go", and once again a new Patrick's country song, "Code Of The West", is included in this new cd......
