Richard Dale Kotzen is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Kotzen has a prolific solo career, with a back catalogue of more than twenty album releases, was a member of the glam-hard rock band Poison from 1991-1993, Mr. Big from 1999-2002, and since 2012 has been the frontman of the band The Winery Dogs.
On January 25, 2018, Kotzen released a video for his new single called The Damned via youtube, which was filmed at Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California by director Vicente Cordero. On June, 5, 2018, a second video single called Riot was released via YouTube, which was again directed by Vicente Cordero. On December, 11, 2018, Kotzen announced a Winery Dogs Tour through the US for May, 2019, via his official Facebook page, which they completed successfully then.
After releasing only two video singles in 2018 and another one (Venom) in 2019, to withhold all other newly written songs for his triple album 50 For 50 planned for his 50th birthday, on which 50 new tracks can be heard, that album has been released on February 3rd (Kotzen’s birthday). The 50 songs are divided on 3 CDs.