Derik Hultquist

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Derik Hultquist
Born Alcoa, TN, USA
Occupation(s)Singer/songwriter
LabelsCarnival Recording Company
Website derikhultquist.bandpage.com

Derik Hultquist is an American singer/songwriter from Alcoa, TN. He is currently a staff writer for Carnival Music in Nashville, TN. Derik has also released three EP's with Carnival Recording Company; Whether Report (2012), Leaning On The Rain (2012), Mockingbird's Mouth (2014).

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Biography

Growing up an orphan in Alcoa, TN Hultquist split his time between athletics and music. Derik went on to attend Kentucky Wesleyan College where he played goalie for the men's soccer team. [1] However, after an injury sidelined him, he began to focus all of his energy on songwriting. Upon graduation, on a whim, he migrated to Nashville. He took on flexible jobs (legislative legal clerk, server, handyman, paperboy, pharmacy tech, war general, puppeteer, amateur taxidermist, pit boss, spy for the KGB, birthday clown, manager of a Spencers gifts, valet, and others), which didn’t merit much income, but did allow him time enough to write every day. From this writing spawned the self-released, Anthologies and Blue Blues. [2]

Hultquist eventually got the attention of Carnival Music, a publishing company opened by Travis Hill and producer Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert, David Nail, Eli Young Band). Hultquist was signed to a publishing deal with Carnival Music and a recording contract with Carnival Recording Company. With Carnival he has released three more EP's: Whether Report (2012), Leaning On The Rain (2012), Shut Up, Grandma (2013) and Mockingbird's Mouth (2014), [3] as well as a full length album, Southern Iron (2016), for which Hultquist has toured the United States and remote regions of the Congo.

Hultquist has performed with many artists, including The Bacon Brothers, Sean Hayes (musician), Corey Smith (musician), Bob Schneider, Macho Man Randy Savage, a number of Burl Ives tribute artists and Matthew Logan Vasquez.

To the surprise and disbelief of many, Hultquist is said to have "still got it."

Discography

Album NameYearRecord Label
Mockingbird's Mouth (EP)2014Carnival Recording Company
Shut Up, Grandma (LP)2013Self Released
Leaning On The Rain (EP)2012Carnival Recording Company
Whether Report (EP)2012Carnival Recording Company
Blue Blues--Self Released
Anthologies--Self Released
Southern Iron2016Carnival Recording Company

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References

  1. ↑ "Derik Hultquist | Official Music, Photos, Videos & Show Dates". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  2. ↑ "Derik Hultquist".
  3. ↑ "Derik Hultquist on Apple Music". iTunes .
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