About Ron Houston
Ron Houston is a singer/songwriter based in the San Diego area and now living in the Roaring Fork Valle.
Born in West Monroe Louisiana and raised in Bakersfield California, Ron has the authentic story-telling vocals about real life, hard-working men, the day-to-day struggle with substance abuse, and some of our most favorite honky-tonk heroes... he doesn't try to sugar-coat anything.
Ron is the lead singer and songwriter of The Sickstring Outlaws, which he founded in 2004.
Ron's outlaw country band The Sickstring Outlaws album Johnny Drank Jack was nominated Best Local Recording at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards.
Their second full-length album, Electric Moonshine, was released in Autumn 2014.
Ron is also the lead singer of the bluegrass murder ballad band Ron Houston and The Berry Pickers which he founded with lead guitarist David Berry Jr. in 2018
Ron has just released his first ever solo cd A LONG ROAD HOME. An epic 17 song journey.
Ron can also be heard singing lead vocals on the 2019 metal CD release Psychobilly Nightmare World which features metal guitar legend Tracy G ... former lead guitarist for Ronnie James Dio.
Ron has had the good fortune, through hard work, to open for the likes of David Allan Coe, The Marshall Tucker Band, Black Oak Arkansas, Bango Tango, The Meat Puppets, Cashed Out, Whiskey Myers, Merle Jagger, Gethen Jenkins, PeeWee Moore, Dallas Moore, The Barnyard Stompers, The Three Bad Jacks and many more.. If you happen to catch a Ron Houston live show or a live show by Ron Houston and The Berry Pickers or The Sickstring Outlaws… you will not be disappointed.
Metalville UK
"It's funny who you get chatting away if you walk into the Rainbow around 12.00 midday in mid November - there's always a musician and a character or two kicking around. On this occasion I got talking away to a dude who had a cool baseball cap that just happened to be the name of the band he was in from San Diego, California called 'The Sickstring Outlaws' so he gave me this 'ere CD to check out. I was blown away by it - good ole country music with plenty of banjo on it with tunes about listening to artists like getting stoned, writing cool songs and having a good time with your friends. There's a killer tribute to Johnny Cash called 'Johnny Drank Jack'. This is rootsy county bluegrass with masses of southerness at its finest. I urge everyone to check out these guys."
- Glenn Milligan, Metalliville UK