Sorry to Jason for the spam filter nabbing your repeat attempts to answer this question! I've let two of your replies through. We will all remember Patrick Williams's name!
The New Orleans guys must have been watching game 7. I think most of them would recognize him...,
"Patrick is one of those people who was destined to make it as a musician. He grew up surrounded by the sounds of New Orleans jazz and blues in the neighborhood. He loved everything about it from the time he was old enough to remember.
During high school he began taking music seriously as a possible career and began teaching himself to play the harmonica. He learned to read music and also to play the drums. Once he was good enough to work professionally, he began playing on world-famous Bourbon Street with older, more seasoned "cats."
When he was only 23, Patrick joined the Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. band and played in Australia, Japan, France, Italy, Mexico and other parts of the world, being admired and recognized for his outstanding abilities on harmonica. Dan Ackroyd singled him out at a corporate show on the road and played with him for the rest of the evening. Same thing happened with Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Go figure.
Patrick played on Live with Regis and Kelly, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, and Wheel of Fortune. He has performed at literally hundreds of corporate events and weddings, and has appeared in several television commercials as well the movie "Snow Wonder" starring Mary Tyler Moore and Camryn Manheim. He's also had parts in the HBO series "Treme," and TNT's "Memphis Beat.."
After 12 years as a side man with Dopsie, Big Al Carson and other New Orleans greats, Patrick is a band leader…which brings us to today when he's playing to full houses all over town. If it's blues you want; it's blues you'll get with Patrick Williams and the Blues Express."
Last Edited by Thievin' Heathen on Nov 05, 2016 11:00 AM
Many thanks, peeps (especially that Mooncat). I was pretty impressed, I usually complain that country music no longer resembles itself. In this case, it was its own thing, and rootsy enough to obviate efforts to classify it.
