Chris Hicks

Hailing from Georgia, Chris Hicks cultivated his abilities on lead guitar for artists that included Gregg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Marshall Tucker Band, among additional acts, while delivering vocals steeped in Southern rock and blues. Shaped by the sounds of Otis Redding and James Brown, he spent his formative years in the Macon area before becoming a member of the Experience. Following multiple years on the blues festival circuit, the group supported Steppenwolf and Charlie Daniels throughout the 1980s, after which Hicks received an invitation to the Outlaws toward the end of that decade. Once the Outlaws dissolved in 1996, he entered the shifting roster of the Marshall Tucker Band as its lead guitarist, an affiliation that overlapped with the start of his solo work via the 1998 album Funky Broadway. He remained part of the Marshall Tucker Band across the next ten years, during which his follow-up solo release, Dog Eat World, appeared in 2008.