Richard Bennett is an American guitarist, composer, and record producer. In addition to his 5 solo albums, and his recordings with Neil Diamond and Mark Knopfler, he has been featured as a performer and producer on many albums by other artists.

2010 finds Richard Bennett ever in demand for recording sessions, embarking on his 6th world tour with Mark Knopfler and releasing his latest solo album, Valley Of The Sun. Each of the eleven original instrumentals are relentlessly melodic and trace his early years playing music in Phoenix, Arizona…the Valley of the Sun.

The first solo album released by Richard Bennett after decades of work as a studio musician and producer, contributing to thousands of recordings for other artists. In the liner notes to the CD, Mark Knopfler writes: "For almost ten years now I've felt very lucky having Richard Bennett as a pal and as a member of the band.

Richard Bennett Contrary Cocktail Release April 2015. ... Q. Did you record Contrary Cocktail, in one way or another, different than your previous records ? A : I went about recording the same way as always most often with a rhythm section although some of the songs have a different feel to them, they go in directions I’ve not been before.

Code Red Cloud Nine is the second solo album by Richard Bennett, released on Moderne Shellac in February, 2008. "With his latest release, Code Red Cloud Nine, Bennett and his golden tone guitar come swinging back with a dozen unbeatable originals. It's the stuff that dreams are made of....romance, adventure, mystery and danger.". "I believe these tracks might reflect the real 'heart and soul' of Richard Bennett. Of course, I think that about everything I hear him play, whether it's jazz, blues...

Ballads In Otherness, the sixth record in a series of original guitar music from the pen and fingers of Richard Bennett; record producer, studio musician and long-time guitarist with Mark Knopfler and Neil Diamond. It is an unusual title for an album especially as all the songs are not exactly ballads in the modern sense but in the traditional one of a song or melody that tells a story at any tempo. These are ballads with a beat and all 13 of them tell a story of otherness.