Local Songwriters

Richard Thomas Uzdevenes aka Saltwater Rick, born February 27,1960 in Madrid Spain. A Navy brat moved to Gulf Breeze Fla at the age of 3. Grew up listening to the A.M. Radio and playing air guitar and singing everything poorly. Mom was a piano player and tried to teach the kids to play, but I was to wild to sit and learn much at one time. I started writing my own stuff at fifteen when a teacher told me what a great job I did on a paper I wrote on Santa Rosa Island. Late songs from my catalog came from life’s  treasures or pains and when I was working for American Airlines as a mechanic in Tulsa Ok. I had the blues so bad being away from home that I wrote Saltwater Blues.   I started performing it on the island at the open Mics at The Sun Ray Taco Shop the other players with the name Saltwater Rick. I have 49 songs written in the library of congress under Saltwater Rick volume 1 and have a notebook full for vol 2. Looking forward to PBSF 2023. Come on down to the Deep South and breath in the Saltwater-air and take ride on the Gulfside.

Trucking cross country for over 45 yrs, and over 4 million miles, owner/operator Nathan Robinson has had plenty of long days and nights to think about his life and how to put much of it into song. Growing up in Hank Williams country and performing at an early age with Hank’s cousins, he knew this was what he wanted to do. But life happened and bills had to be paid, so music had to wait. In 2017, Nathan and son Fletcher, built their own studio, Evergreen  Records, and began recording his songs and released his 1st album Whiskey and Women in 2019, and is currently working on another. He has attended workshops with Bill Anderson, Jan Howard and other Nashville #1 hit songwriters, and has co-written with several also. From country, gospel, blues, to ballads and comedy, you’ll enjoy his music. Check  out his YouTube channel Nathan Robinson Music and Entertainment. Nathan has performed from the gulf coast to Nashville and all points in between, playing for festivals, benefits and churches. Hes proud to be part of the PBSF family!

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Josh Newcom is a multi genre artist who has toured with everyone from Blue Oyster Cult to Merle Haggard. Josh has been featured on MTV, CMT, and has also filmed and directed videos for Blackberry Smoke, Merle Haggard, Jamey Johnson, and many many more. For most of his life, Josh has toured the US from coast to coast playing close to 300 shows per year. But he has now settled in the Gulf Coast area, where he now plays over 300 shows per year.. just closer to home.
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Kelley Mckee is a multi instrumentalist singer- songwriter hailing from Mobile, Alabama. Drawing from his early lyrical heroes and his own musical journey, Kelley strives to create thoughtful, experience minded music. His unique guitar work and slide driven melodies lend to his soulful vocal delivery and thought provoking lyricism to create his moving brand of Roots Rock. Kelley is an award winning Dobro player and an accomplished lap steel and slide guitar player. You can catch him around the Gulf Coast as a solo performer or with his band Swampwater Symphony.

Devan Sean is an emerging songwriter from Pensacola, Florida. Best known for her local hit “Tomboy,” Devan has been heavily inspired by Miranda Lambert and The Pistol Annies, with many of her songs featuring themes of gritty authenticity, criminal mischief, and heartbreak. One of Devan’s central aims is to write for Lambert professionally. Her music is characterized by country-style finger picking riffs, feel-good melodies, and heartfelt lyrics.  Check out more of Devan Sean on Instagram @neon.tomboy and her Facebook @ Devan Sean Dunlap.

Austin Forman, born and raised in Pensacola FL, has been writing songs since he was 10 years old. He prides himself on writing country music that comes from his heart and fills each line with as much passion as he can. After the songs “That B*tch Carole Baskins” went viral and landed him national attention he met Bobby Walkup and together they wrote Austin’s next viral hit “Pallets Full Of Ballots” after the 2020 election. Since then, Austin has written or co-written multiple songs that have appeared on the iTunes Charts over the past 3 years and continues to write new music every day.

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Robert Wayne was born in Battle Creek, MI and raised in nearby East Leroy, MI. His love for singing was taught to him by his mother. She was an undiscovered super star with a voice that could stand in a room with Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Robert Wayne now lives in Navarre, FL where he is writing songs and performing them with his band along the Gulf Coast. He is excited to play a few songs, see all his old friends, and getting to meet some new friends, at this years Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival.

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