Richard Stickley started playing snare drum at age seven and all throughout elementary and high school studied snare drum and timpani . After high school, he attended the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Virginia and studied percussion and music theory.

Richard while in Virginia played with the Virginia Arts. He played on sound tracks , jingles, PBS-TV, and children’s albums and demos. Later, Richard moved to Nashville to start a career as a session player. In his career Richard as played with various artist as Billy Walker, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, and Lynn Anderson..

If Richard is not on the road or recording, he works at one of the legendary Honky-Tonk areas in Nashville, Tennessee called Tootsies Orchid Lounge. The legendary bar is in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The World’s Most Famous Honky-Tonk.”