Now grounded, Quick dives into his music
Nathan Quick spent years working 190 miles off the shore of Louisiana.
Getting to and from the oil rig required a helicopter ride, so personal effects had to be kept to a minimum. That meant no guitar for the young singer-songwriter. But Quick found the farflung locale helped him fill up lyric books.
“The night is kind of beautiful, man,” he says. “The stars light up in the sky and they don’t look the same as they do at home. You can sit up and write without distractions. It was three weeks on, three weeks off, so it gives you stories and it gives you time to think. You go out on the helideck and look at nothing but water. It’s quiet up there.”
He’d bring ideas back from the offshore rig and put them down at SugarHill Recording Studios.
“I could pull songs to-