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Album For A Thousand Miles
Written By: Patrick Kinsley
Produced By: Jesse Thompson
Single Little Tin House
Written By: Patrick Kinsley
Produced By: Jesse Thompson
Single Back In Illinois
Written By: Patrick Kinsley
Produced By: Jesse Thompson
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Patrick Kinsley is a pretty lousy guitar player and sings just well enough to carry a tune. Nevertheless, he's somehow able to write with a voice that makes the characters in his songs come alive - makes them drink, screw, curse and spit. Profusely.
“They're usually of the Tom T. Hall variety- light on choruses, heavy on image. Like, y’know, the whole story-song thing,” says Kinsley.
Kinsley cut his teeth on the sometimes hospitable, sometimes hellish New Orleans club circuit. After two years of hard work and dumb luck, Patrick found he was ready to put it all on the line and make the move to Nashville. Currently recording his debut, For A Thousand Miles, with his ass-kicking band A Fistful Of Dollars, Patrick Kinsley will return to the dives and ditches of America to support Miles this summer.
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Taking his cues from the greats such as Merle Haggard right through to southern rocking legends like the Drive-By Truckers, Patrick Kinsey & A Fistful Of Dollars play outlaw folk and country that is shot through with a raw, burning integrity.
These are blue collar stories of truck drivers and bartenders, too much whiskey and too little luck, bad choices and good intentions, hopeful long odds and hopeless shortcomings. Everything is there as a tale to be told and while lessons might not be learned, the human spirit flickers and burns throughout.
Patrick Kinsley’s songs are filled with tough stories of flawed human beings experiencing various kinds and degrees of heartbreak, making bad decisions, and somehow managing some semblance of survival. These are raw and often painful stories. Through Kinsley’s deft writing, the stories and characters come into sharp focus, and his unique, raspy singing voice adds a gritty depth to the tales.
Joined by his band, A Fistful of Dollars, Patrick Kinsley’s debut full album, For a Thousand Miles, was produced by Jesse Thompson at Blue Duck Studio in Nashville, Tennessee where Kinsley has made his home after spending two year toiling in the New Orleans club scene.
“Hard Times” kicks off the album with a classic country driving song and “For What That’s Worth” closes it out with a folk-inspired tune that leaves the listener still on the endless highway, bruised and battered,but better off than when they began the journey. And the album is a journey.
Along the road, there are some guitar licks that would make Chuck Berry proud (“A Little Further North”) and the songs… and the stories… and the characters. The strength of the album lies in Kinsley’s rich literary songwriting voice and in something perhaps a little harder to define. Musically, the album offers a restrained diversity. The harder rocking songs are (often barely) contained while the slower songs are infused with a raw energy that keeps the album moving.
It is this continuity that makes the album work as a whole - like one long drive filled with many different experiences but all leading to the same - albeit uncertain destination. It seems appropriate that the album leaves the listener still on that open highway, because one hopes this is just one leg of a much longer journal for Patrick Kinsley.
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"Everything is familiar and warm, but at the same time it’s not – there’s a sort of darkness, a uniqueness to the track."
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"Blood in the Water" is a straight-ahead rocker with some blues undertones that adds some early Rolling Stones hints."
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"The Aquaducks are releasing a new single today, entitled "Bill's Toupee." Inspired by James Brown, "Bill's Toupee" is an uptempo funk tune with a comedic edge that features catchy guitar lines as well as a tongue-in-cheek perspective on what it means to be a poor musician."
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"This Is Fine, produced by Jon Hicks (who has engineering credits with groups as diverse as Relient K and Dance Gavin Dance). It calls to mind bands like You Blew It!, Look Mexico and even their Nashville scenemates Free Throw."
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"Move over Maylene, because Nashville’s own Sweettalker is about to redefine southern rock. Embracing the essence of Music City, Sweettalker goes back to the roots of their sound, creating aggressive rock riffs mixed with a hard-headed and relentless emotion."
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Taking his cues from the greats such as Merle Haggard right through to southern rocking legends like the Drive-By Truckers, Patrick Kinsey & A Fistful Of Dollars play outlaw folk and country that is shot through with a raw, burning integrity.
These are blue collar stories of truck drivers and bartenders, too much whiskey and too little luck, bad choices and good intentions, hopeful long odds and hopeless shortcomings. Everything is there as a tale to be told and while lessons might not be learned, the human spirit flickers and burns throughout.
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