Derik Hultquist is an American singer/songwriter from

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. He is currently a staff writer for

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. Derik has also released three EP's with Carnival Recording Company; ''Whether Report'' (2012), ''Leaning On The Rain'' (2012), ''Mockingbird's Mouth'' (2014).

Biography

Growing up an orphan in

Hultquist split his time between

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and

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. Derik went on to attend

Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky. Fall 2018 enrollment was 830 students. History Kentucky Wesleyan College was founded in 1858 by the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It ...

where he played goalie for the men's

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. However, after an injury sidelined him, he began to focus all of his energy on

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. 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. Hultquist eventually got the attention of

, a

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opened by Travis Hill and producer

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(

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). Hultquist was signed to a publishing deal with

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), 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

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, Macho Man Randy Savage, a number of

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tribute artists and Matthew Logan Vasquez. To the surprise and disbelief of many, Hultquist is said to have "still got it."

Discography

References

* http://www.thepossumden.com/the-den/2012/3/29/derik-hultquist-leaning-on-the-rain.html * http://www.scenesc.com/2012/03/30/last-minute-show-preview-folk-singersongwriter-derik-hultquist-at-the-midnight-rooster-hartsville/ * http://shorefire.com/releases/entry/derik-hultquists-psychedelic-pop-debut-southern-iron-carnival-thirt-tigers {{DEFAULTSORT:Hultquist, Derik American male singers Living people Kentucky Wesleyan College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) People from Alcoa, Tennessee Singers from Tennessee