Pat Flynn is a well known name, in one way or another, to music fans all over the world. You may recognize him as a member of a groundbreaking musical group, or a first-call Nashville recording session player, or a producer, songwriter, and artist. One thing is for sure, in the last couple of years, Pat has found a way to combine all of these talents and showcase them for you on his latest CD releases.
As guitarist/singer/songwriter for New Grass Revival, Flynn, along with Sam Bush, John Cowan, and Béla Fleck, influenced many of today's best-known artists while building New Grass Revival's own loyal audience to near cult status. Attesting to the group's continuing popularity and influence, Capitol-EMI Records has released a very special two-CD New Grass Revival 20 year retrospective, entitled ‘Grass Roots’. This historic collection features previously unreleased live, TV and studio tracks.
During his tenure with NGR, Frets magazine’s National Readers Poll voted Pat as “Best Acoustic Guitarist” for five consecutive years. For winning five years in a row, Flynn was inducted into the Frets "Gallery of Greats" alongside Chet Atkins, Doc Watson and Tony Rice.
Flynn has also been a session guitarist on more than 350 CD projects, including 26 Gold and Platinum records, as well as CMA and Grammy award winning projects with a wide array of top artists. Flynn wrote and performed on Garth Brooks's hit single “Do What You Gotta Do,”which has recently been reissued in the new Garth Brooks box set.
Pat is a featured artist on the Nashville Acoustic Sessions CD project, with Raul Malo, Rob Ickes, and Dave Pomeroy on CMH Records. The record ended up on many critics' “best of the year” lists and achieved Top-10 status on the Americana radio chart. Pat is also a featured player on The Greencards much acclaimed CDs, Movin' On and Weather and Water, released on DualTone Records. The Greencards invited Pat to perform with them as they opened the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson tour this past summer.
In the past couple of years, Pat has added the role of producer to his resume with up and coming acts such as Cadillac Sky, Tim May, Alan Thornhill, Joe Nolan, Tyler Flowers, and Candace Corrigan.
Pat's first CD, 'reQuest', was released to enthusiastic reviews and attention world wide. Appearing with Pat on this project are Béla Fleck, John Cowan, Rob Ickes, Stuart Duncan, Jim Hoke, Buddy Greene and others.
Pat's second CD project, reVision, was released in January 2008. Both CDs are distributed nationally by Sony/Thirty Tigers, and are available NOW from patflynnmusic.com and established music outlets everywhere.
In addition to Flynn’s cover stories in Flatpicking Guitar and Bluegrass Now magazines, he was also chosen as Tom T Hall's musical director and guitarist for Hall’s recent “Artist In Residence” month at The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, a retrospective of Tom T Hall's incredible musical career.
Recent festival seasons have found Pat performing again at many of the country's most prestigious festival stages MerleFest Americana Music Celebration, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Rocky Grass, Walnut Valley Festival (Winfield), Rocky Mountain Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, as well as a slot at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event. Flynn’s signature line-up of “Pat Flynn & Friends” featured some of his best friends and musicians he most admires: John Cowan, Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott, Stuart Duncan, Buddy Greene, Michael Card, Charlie McCoy and Danny Wheetman, and many others.
If you are going to be in Nashville for the Americana Conference, be sure to check out the Gram Parsons Petition Party at the Nashville Palace over by the Opryland Hotel Fri. Sept 19 It's on 2611 McGavock Pike. Live Bands the whole night. Burrito Deluxe will be playing a set too
I’m just stopping by to say “Thanks for being in my Circle of MySpace Friends”, and to hopefully make you smile today.
The Bathtub Test
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No" said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"
ARE YOU GOING TO PASS THIS ON, OR DO YOU WANT THE BED NEXT TO MINE ?
So glad to have you as a friend! I pray my music blesses you. Please stop by my page and sign my guestbook. Feel free to visit often and keep in touch! In His praise, Yvonne "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises to God while I have my being." Psalm 146: 1-2
Hey- We'd love your help in voting for G7th for the Best Capo in the Players Choice Awards balloting.. just copy and paste the following link into your browser to fill out your own ballot: http://www.acousticguitar.com/Surveys/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=35K874K04mm4G
Hi Pat! Hope you can spare a moment to come by my page and vote G7th for top capo in the Acoustic Guitar mag's "Players' Choice" awards! Every vote counts and helps!.. and there's prizes! Cheers Nick
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Hey all fans of Pat Flynn! Pat Flynn is being featured on this week's SoupyGato Show #159, playing now!
There are several ways to listen to the SoupyGato Show – the easiest is to visit our website: www.soupygato.com – or subscribe to the show by visiting http://www.gcast.com/u/soupygato/main -- and it will download to your Itunes, Ipod, etc.
SoupyGato Show #159 air date May 7, 2008
Nice As Pie -- Drunk, Stoned, Stupid Coraline -- Rita Oortcloud -- Flying Back Boomerangs Pat Flynn -- Better Let It Go
Rattlesnake -- Tip of the Iceberg Van Tramp -- Help Me Make It Clint Coker -- When I Grow Up London -- One 2 Many
Nice As Pie -- I Won't Let You Down Gary Rex Tanner -- Up All Night Oortcloud -- Blippety Bleep 3rd Room -- Poison
Roamin Gabriels -- Marley's Bones Amanda Potter -- Burned
Vote for MORE of your favorite artists here: http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=21268 -- You can also hear the show by clicking on my profile -- and find out how to submit your own music as well!
You did amazing work w/NGR, and I'm looking forward to hearing more of your stuff on here! Oh, and there in your Top Friends is our buddy, Brad Davis - we worked together years ago at O'land! He's the one that introduced NGR to us all those years ago! Thanks for the add! www.StardustLullaby.com
I really love your music it is inspiring an beautiful. I wrote a review on your music per. Jared & it is now posted on my BLOG section, on the front page of myspace site. If your at NORM BLUEGRASS Festival coming up on the 16th in Nashville hope to meet you. I will be there seeing Wil Maring & Robert Bowlin.
Thanks for the friend request. Up early or out late? Loved your NGR stuff but haven't heard from you lately...plan to change that! Earle...thebaldbassguy.
Hey,thanks for the req.I must admit to not knowing much about you but thats gonna change. very impressive music on your page.I was born into country and blugrass and just recently have gotten back to my roots.look forward to learning more about your music.pick on!
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