Passionate wordsmith Patrick Ames returns with a sizzling hot blues number that sees his creative mind going on full swing, utilizing the simplest of musical ideas and turning them into a captivating atmosphere of smokehouse blues.
Based in California, Patrick Ames is a singer and a songwriter who is on an elongated journey of rediscovery of his musical passions, after a long and successful career in book publishing. Ames is comfortable in drawing parallels between the job of a book publisher and that of a music producer, noting how both people are responsible for the final shape of how a piece of art is displayed and presented to the audience.
His musical style is in part based on meticulous calculation and on spur-of-the-moment liveliness. On his latest release titled ‘Young and Amorous’, Ames seems to have stumbled upon a riff, and then went on to lay down his articulated words on top, maintaining the simplicity of the spontaneous riff, and his tendency to write deep, heartful words, supported by his long career in literature. ‘Young and Amorous’ can not be without the slick bassline, and the fantastic backing vocals from Mikaela Matthews, 2 elements that define most of the juice of the piece. Then we have Patrick Ames’s lyrics, at once self-conscious and a call to pretend that life is completely different, it is a display of an artist who is not afraid to bear his heart on his sleeve and be most vulnerable.
The sick blues riffs are a perfectly enjoyable backdrop to Ames’s soulful yelps and calls, and to his self-effacing poetry, and to Matthews’ perfectly contrasting backing vocal delivery. A sweet drop from a seasoned artist who has been writing songs for more than 5 decades.