Mitch Herrick grew up outside of Chicago, in what was like one great big drunken musical ... everybody always singing, dancing, fighting ... and everybody in the family except his father were musicians. His dad was a painter. There were always rumors around the family that his father apprenticed with Norman Rockwell, but that was mostly chalked it up to boozy fishtails. Two paintings with that "Rockwell guy's" name hung on the walls when Mitch was a kid, and his mom had been forever pissed at his dad for selling them to get out of one of many financial scrapes that came along. She never let him live that down. It wasn't until later that Mitch did some research and saw on the internet that a couple of Rockwell paintings with the inscription, "To my pal Herb Herrick," had been sold at a Christie's auction for some obscene amount of money.
Mitch studied music from an early age, and spent most of his childhood backstage and in studios with his family. He abandoned college early to go on tour with The Gin Blossoms, and then Dave Matthews as an opening act, and has since been playing professionally and touring for over 25 years, consistently performing around 275 shows per year.
He has been fortunate enough to write, produce, and share the stage with the following exceptional musicians:
Robin Thicke
Kid Rock
Goo Goo Dolls
Cake
Ellie Goulding
Allison Krause & Robert Plant
Dispatch
Alice In Chains
Blues Traveler
Sister Hazel
Edwin McCain
The Whalers
Dick Dale
Dropkick Murphy's
Rusted Root
Sublime with Rome
Blind Melon
Pretty Lights
The Avett Brothers
Michael Franti and Spearhead
G Love and Special Sauce
Donavon Frankenreiter
Poco
Jason Isbel
State Radio
Billy Joel
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Yonder Mountain String Band
Donna The Buffalo
Del McCory Band
J Cole
The Doobie Bros
Dirty Heads
Trombone Shorty
Inner Circle
Rebolution
Ozomatli
Tribal Seeds
Punch Brothers
JJ Grey
Anders Osbourne
Marc Broussard
Steep Canyon Rangers
Green Sky Bluegrass
Orleans, Bobby Lee Rogers
Tim Reynolds
Thomas Wynn and The Believers
The Heavy Pets
Beverly McClellan from The Voice
Sara Bareillis
Sophie B. Hawkins
Hoobastank
Stephen Marley
Shaw Davis and The Black Ties
Oogie Wawa