An article from the Summer 2008 issue of Saratoga Lifestyles Sweet Music By Paul Grondahl SARATOGA SPRINGS – It was approaching midnight on a Saturday in late-February at Gaffney’s as Sharon Dwyer Bolton wrapped her husky voice around Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 hit “Landslide.” She sang the soulful lyrics with a knowing nod of the head: “But time makes you bolder/Children get older/I’m getting older, too/Well I’m getting older too.” She looked across the crowded, narrow dining space toward the long bar and caught the eye of a good friend, Kim Smith, manager of Gaffney’s for the past two decades, and, as if on cue, they both threw back their heads and sang out in unison, “So what?” That joyful exchange between the two women sums up why Rick Bolton and the Dwyer Sisters -- one of Saratoga’s longest-running and most popular bar bands – are still singing their hearts out at bars and clubs up and down Broadway after more than a decade of decidedly unglamorous toil > MORE

An article from the April 2005 issue of the Lake George Mirror Hague's Rick Bolton: A Life in Music By Anthony F. Hall "As a young man, I was chasing a dream. As I got older, I realized the ultimate gig was a mile down the road, playing with and for my friends and then going home to my wife and kids. That's really making it." That's local legend Rick Bolton's idea of a successful career in music, and by that definition, he's made it." From playingin garage bands on northern Lake George, where he traveled to gigs by boat because he was too young to drive, to touring out west, only to return home and help launch a thriving music scene in Saratoga, Rick Bolton has led a life in music and found the music that reflects his life. "I grew up in Hague," he recounts. "When summer hit, we got some culture, but not enough to hurt us. I buried myself in my room in winters and learned to play guitar. I listened to the Beatles and the Stones, and I worked backward toward the music's roots. > MORE