JASON EADY & COURTNEY PATTON

100 Public Square North,Dahlonega GA 30533

20 November, 2022

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JASON EADY A near-lifelong songwriter who names Merle Haggard, Guy Clark, and Willie Nelson among his main inspirations, Eady grew up in Jackson MS., and got his start performing in local bars at age 14, showing his natural grasp of everything from soul and R&B to blues and country. After some time in the Air Force, he moved to Fort Worth and started playing open mic nights, where he quickly built up a devoted following. After independently releasing his debut album From Underneath the Old in 2005, he expanded his touring radius and continued turning out critically praised work, including 2012’s AM Country Heaven (a top 40 debut on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart), 2014’s Daylight/Dark (an album that “belongs on a shelf next to Dwight Yoakam’s Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room, Joe Ely’s Letter to Laredo, and yes, even Willie Nelson’s Phases and Stages,” according to AllMusic), and his self-titled 2017 effort (hailed by Rolling Stone as “[h]eavily steeped in his storyteller lyrical style and cleverly framed by uncluttered, acoustic-rich arrangements”). Through the years, Eady has also made his name as an unforgettable live performer, sharing stages with the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Band of Heathens, and Reckless Kelly. In creating his newest record, 'To The Passage Of Time', Eady incorporated several songs born from a songwriters group that started up during quarantine, including his wife, Courtney Patton along with artists like Brent Cobb, Adam Hood, and Jamie Lin Wilson (who also joined Patton in contributing harmony vocals to the album). “In the early stages of quarantine we realized that nobody was getting any writing done, even though we all had so much downtime,” he says. “We started this group and gave each other prompts to try to turn out a song a week, and it really helped get rid of that paralysis we were all feeling.” COURTNEY PATTON With a poet’s heart, Courtney Patton fuses the power of lyrics, a healthy dosage of musical influences and narrative to build an incredible set of songs on her new 2022 album, Electrostatic. With one listen, you will be changed how you think about music. To know Courtney Patton is to know that she can do anything and everything. Patton is a mother, a wife, a producer, a singer, a songwriter, and a musician. When the Covid world as we know it stopped concerts in their tracks in early 2020, Patton and her husband, fellow troubadour, Jason Eady, kept the heart of live music alive with a weekly program called Sequestered Songwriters. It included so many of their dearest musical friends, from Suzy Bogguss to Cody Jinks. The shows were themed in a way to honor influential artists and songwriters. It was over the course of this year, with weekly and always-beautiful dedications to the likes of Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Vince Gill, Eagles and Don Williams, that Patton - perhaps consciously, perhaps subconsciously - had her songwriter craft and musical tastes both sharpened and broadened. The result on Electrostatic is clear. It feels more soulful, more full than previous projects. In spots it feels jazzier, and on one track, even draws on Spanish influences to create an incredibly rich tapestry of sound to go with lyrics that are armed with sensitivity and sentiment. Says Patton on the project, “I didn’t initially start the project with this intent, but as we were making it, I could hear all of my musical heroes and influences organically coming out in each song. And that brought me so much joy.” Courtney coproduced her latest project, 'Electrostatic' with both her husband and the Band of Heathens’ Gordy Quist. Musicians on the album include a group of all-star musical talents such as Geoff Queen (Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Reckless Kelly) on guitar and pedal steel, Trevor Nealon (Jerry Jeff Walker, Rodney Crowell, Jack Ingram) on piano and keyboards, Heather Stalling (Max Stalling, Johnny Lee, The Old 97s) on fiddle, Richard Millsap (Ray Wylie Hubbard, George Strait, John Fogerty) on drums, Naj Conklin (Guy Forsyth, Jon Dee Graham, Jason Eady) on bass, and half of the acclaimed band The Trishas on backing vocals in Jamie Lin Wilson and Kelley Mickwee. DO NOT MISS this rare opportunity to see this usually separate touring husband and wife duo share the stage together! For more info about their music visit them on Facebook or at their websites: www.JasonEady.com and www.CourtneyPatton.com