About
About my Guitar Playing
I have played guitar since I was ten years old,but for years I played with a flat pick,but then I started Listening to Merle Travis so I threw away my flatpicks determined to Learn the Travis style.I now play with a thumbpick and three fingers.I don't copy Merle or anyone I do my own thing and I Play mostly Gospel music and some of the old stuff Like Mona Lisa. Hicky
I made my decision for Christ Nov.5th 1972 in a baptist church.then moved on and became an evangelist and held License in two different prominent denominations! I started to become quite sucessful preaching the Gospel (i thought) Many were beginning to compare me to some of the top TV preachers of the 70s. But then God put his foot right in my butt,and let me know in no uncertain terms that he wanted me to quit! He spoke to my heart and said this is not my way and you will not be a part of it!
Then God proceeded to show me much of the False doctrine that is being preached and i had been a part of it! When i left the denominations they just knew i had backslid but in reality i have never been closer to God! And of course when God showed me the false doctrine i had to make the decision to keep preaching false doctrine and keep my License or Preach truth and lose my License! Thank God for the grace He gave me to chose truth over deception!
About my ministry
Although I do a lot of instramentals,I have written quite a few Vocals as well as Instramentals.Vocals include, The Blood that was shed for me,The tear stained Bible,The Flight of the Sparrow, Whats the price of freedom, A tear in my eye,The crossing and many others. Hidden Tears Inst. Kingdom Walkin Inst. Rendezvous at Cam-Lo.Inst. All my songs are true songs,the Instramental Rendezvous at Cam-Lo is about an experience I had in Vietnam..In 1965 myself and Benjamin Hamrick joined the Marine Corps and went through all the traing together and went to Vietnam together.We both Landed in the same Battalion but He went to Echo 2/4 and I went to Fox 2/4 thats the second Battalion Fourth Marines (second to none the Magnificent Bastards) Before we Left for Vietnam a man from the Little community of Kingmont W.Va where we Lived made the comment that Hicky will come back in a Box. so of course that was always on my mind.ON the 8th of aug.1966 Ben's Platoon was ambushed by about four hundred NVA.Then my company Fox got the word to mount up we were going to help them,and the first thing I thought was I hope we don't have to go out there!I could see the tracers flying through the air and hear the explosions and see spooky the gunship firing the miniguns and noway did I want to go out there!But our Radio man was just to my right and I could hear Echo asking for help and they were running out of ammo!
I felt so guilty about those thoughts I had about I didn't want to go out there that I bowed my head and asked the Lord to forgive me for my selfish thoughts and asked him to help us get out there to help Echo Co.AS soon as I prayed that prayer there was a peace that flooded completely over me,and at that moment I knew that I was going to make it home.I Learned that day the two greatest Lessons of my Life I Learned to put others first and,I Learned that God is very Real! So when I made the Instramental Rendezvous at Cam-Lo I wasn't thinking about the battle but about my Rendezvous with God at Cam-Lo.
Others
The song, The flight of the sparrow is about a man that I new in New Jersey who was a man of the streets or a homeless man,and his Last name was Sparrow,and he really impacted my Life because I knew what he had been and what he had become. Sparrow had been an Engineer on the railroad,and very successfull in the way that we consider success But after he Lost his wife and Kids he Lost his way.
It was so sad because all it would have taken was for one spirit filled Christian to tell him about Jesus! But Christians of today do not have time for people Like that,Their too busy playing church they attend the finest churh buildings and are at every service on time and think they are ok,but have completely forgotten its not about buildings,we are the church not buildings,so its not about buildings and church attendence it is supposed to be about People!
