C.C.Rider, Range Heroes & Winks

In 2003 Patrick Baricault decides to form a country band "C.C.Rider" with Jean-Pierre Siret on drums, Joël Guiganton on pedal steel guitar & Pascal Girault on bass, but very quickly Marc-François Vesque replaces him but in december 2004 Vincent Lardet became the definitive bassist of the band, and very quickly C.C.Rider became one of the most popular bands in France...
From 2003 to the end of 2007, Patrick with C.C.Rider played in more over three hundred and twenty country concerts or festivals. During this four years, two cd are released; "Howdy" in 2004, and "Open Spaces" in 2006. For this cd, Patrick Baricault records his first country song of his own composition: "Gone To Ride"... 
-In 2007, though he is still playing with his country band C.C.Rider, Patrick Baricault, decides to set-up a new country band with two musicians who played with him in the past: William "Bill" Grenouilleau on bass and Carlos Ribeiro on drums. Patrick plans to play in concert with this new band at the beginning of the next year. A name is found for this new band, it'll be called "Range Heroes". They start to rehearse, and quickly two other musicians join the band, François Vesque (acoustic guitar & backing vocals) and Anne-Sophie Roullin (violon); she has just joined C.C.Rider, but she decides to follow Patrick in his future band. During this year, Patrick and this new band also do some recording sessions in anticipation of a cd release planned for the beginning of the next year. In november and december, Patrick & Range heroes play some warm-up shows and in the 31st of december they play their first official live appearance in Coutras (Gironde) for the New Year'Eve... 
From 2008 to the end of 2009 Patrick with Range Heroes played in more over 150 concerts, and in february 2008  they release their "Here We Go" album, and once again a new Patrick's country song, "Code Of The West", is included in this new cd...
In 2010 & 2011, Patrick is on tour with a blues country rock band, "WINKS"
These last years the guitarists singers Patrick Baricault and Marc-François Vesque crossed the country music roads in particular within the groups "C.C.Rider" and more recently "Range Heroes". Today they unite again their complicity within a new band, "WINKS".
     Alain Chassier (guitar and backing vocals), Anicet Debien or Antoine Ménagé (bass and backing vocals) and Jean-Luc Ploquin (drums ) answered at once present to join this band quite now.
     For concerts to come, they will interpret a repertoire "new look" where we shall find all the musical influences which marked the respective careers of Patrick and Marc-François.
     A big moment around the Country music, Blues and Rock 'n' Roll...