Musicians Jim Patton
acoustic guitar, vocals Sherry Brokus
vocals Rich Brotherton
acoustic guitar, mandolin, cittern Scrappy Jud Newcomb
acoustic guitar Warren Hood
fiddle John Bush
percussion Ron Flynt
bass, keyboards, vocals
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ron Flynt at Jumping Dog Studios, Austin Texas
Mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio Inc., Austin Texas
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft agley”
Robert Burns
“To A Mouse”
CD REVIEWS
PLANS GANG AFT AGLEY
"...an antidote to the fascism that surrounds us daily."
Yuri Susanna Roots Highway, Italy
"4 stars .. noticeably more assured and finely nuanced .. it’s the duo’s bedrock integrity that powers their music."
John Conquest
3rd Coast Music Magazine
"This is a beguiling record. .. it inexorably drew me in. Plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious lyrics and singing that weave their tales of universal life, love and woe with the slyness of Hemingway and the convoluted depth of William Faulkner. .. The characters that inhabit these songs .. are presented in all the gorgeous complexity that makes up human life. .. the unadorned fabric beauty of the melodies .. A slight guitar figure here, a jingle of tambourine there and an organ rising up like bubbling crude beneath, all adding nuance and texture to these tales. .. An A record!" www.homegrownradionj.com
Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus
of EDGE CITY
Acoustic Duo/Trio
In 2008, Austin’s Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus step away from the full band sound of their previous recordings with EDGE CITY. Their newly released album reflects their sound as a duo or trio when they perform in acoustic settings like The Cactus Cafe in Austin, Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, Anderson Fair in Houston, Uncommon Ground in Chicago, or at House Concerts from Austin to Bar Harbor to Baltimore.
“Plans Gang Aft Agley”
“Plans Gang Aft Agley” is produced by Ron Flynt and based around Jim Patton’s heartfelt, character driven songs and his wall of sound vocal interplay with songstress Sherry Brokus. With Patton on guitar and Flynt on bass and keyboards, the new CD also features A-list performances from Rich Brotherton, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Warren Hood, and John Bush.
Featured are Patton’s recent songs where: a man discovers alternate definitions of success; a daughter waits in a bar for the father who walked out years ago; a father tells his child not to make the same mistakes he did; a brave woman breaks free of an abusive past; people fall in love; relationships end; relationships endure.
Patton cites both 20th Century American Fiction (“Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Kerouac, Salinger and Raymond Chandler”) and the lives of the friends he grew up with in Maryland (“I knew doctors and lawyers, their waitresses and teachers, the water rats and gravediggers and the guy whose truck emptied port-o-pots all over the state”) as the main source of his lyrical inspiration.
Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus have sung together for over twenty five years. They confess to listening to a lot of “Richard & Linda Thompson, the Byrds, the Airplane, the Everly Brothers, and Emmy Lou Harris singing with Bob Dylan” when they started .. then took off in a direction “that’s pretty much our own”.
Hey Jim & Sherry, thanks for the add. You are my # 500. That must mean something, right? Well, it's cool to me. Thanks for being my friend in cyberland, as well as in real life.
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Hi Jim and Sherry; thanks again so much for putting up with wayward songwriter; you do it well, like you know the Route. Thanks for pointing me around Austin; really enjoyed meeting the ArtZ and Donn's crowd. Look forward to seeing you soon! Have a great New Year! Bruce
Last night was fun indeed...glad we could be on the same show once more...we'll have to do it again when you come back in February..I'll be in Austin late March.
Americana Songwriter Showcase with Aimee Bobruk, Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus, Kim Deschamps, Jodi Adair, AJ Downing, Kent Mayhew, George Carver @ The Amsterdam 121 West 8th St. & Colorado St. Austin, TX 78701
Live Music at The Amsterdam! A new Songwriter Listening Room in downtown Austin.
Americana Songwriter Showcase features a parade of Austin based songwriters throughout the evening with a number of small group songwriter rounds and mini-sets.
Heard a rumor congrats are in order, very impressive to us who can't pull this off! Good for you and many more years of wedded bliss for you...plus all that great music you make!
May I borrow some of YourSpace to promote MyCdRelease?
The all new, all original CRUELTY arrives Tuesday, July 29, and I'll celebrate with a show at Austin's legendary Cactus Cafe. It's free, aside from the $15 you'll certainly want to spend on the CD. Raina Rose opens at 8:30 pm, then Southpaw Jones performs in his finest suit, and nothing will ever be the same.
