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.
Maybe it's not a coincidence that November brings Election Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Day all in a row. First we have the privilege of voting. Then on Veterans Day we can remember and pay respects to all the individuals who fought and died for that right. Finally we can give thanks for all of it, for our freedoms, for our forefathers, and for all of our choices and opportunities. These are blessings we take for granted while others give up their lives to obtain or to protect them for us.
Have a Great Thanksgiving!
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Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!! http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/who-do-these-guys-think-they-are/ AND Check out the new pictures and video! Let me know what you think! Ruby Jane
Hi! Thank you for being my friend! I would like to invite you to my new music site! You can make a page and customize it, upload music and pictures! In the spring of 2010, I am launching a BIG promotional campaign and online CD release party! Lots of fun and freebies! My music site will be at the center of it! So please join me! *hugs* -Jodi Ann
Hi Pat, Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet. To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you. We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages. Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us! Best Wishes Caroline and Colin
Howdy! Thank you for adding KRC & g! Love, peace & waffles! Please sign our guestbook! Vote for us at sixtyone.com - zoxsy.com & ourstage.com Love from Norway!
Playing solo with a loop station a lot these days.
Going to Yosemite with Jonathan McEuen for FaceLift (post summer clean up) I don't know if you remeber our friend, Ken Yager, from when you played in Yosemite. He coordinates an annual huge volunteer effort. We'll spend 3 nights in the Valley. We'll toast one to you.
Thanks to all the Vern Gosdin fans for their votes. Let's get The Voice into the Country Music Hall of Fame a.s.a.p. Tell a friend to stop by and vote. God Bless
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