{"id":2098,"date":"2012-06-18T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2012-06-18T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:22:48","slug":"patrick-dodd-trio-live-at-roosters-sat-623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/patrick-dodd-trio-live-at-roosters-sat-623\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dodd Trio LIVE at Rooster’s SAT 6\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s the kind of story they always tell you never to expect, or waste your time waiting around for it to happen. Because it won\u2019t happen to you. But it happened to Patrick Dodd<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Patrick would be the first to tell you he \u201cfell into\u201d playing guitar for a living. And in a way, he fell into Future Blues<\/em>. He was playing in a Beale Street club one night, as he\u2019d done so many nights before, when some new fans came up to introduce themselves, as fans had done so many times before. But these fans were different. They were in town on business from Iceland, and they wanted to buy his album. Literally.<\/p>\n

The blues lovers made him an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse: we want you to make a record, and we want to pay for it. All they asked was that Patrick write a song called \u201cFuture Blues,\u201d because they wanted to use it as their company\u2019s official song. He made good on his end of the deal; they made good on theirs.<\/p>\n

Not long before that fateful night, Patrick had met Harry Peel<\/strong> (John Kilzer<\/strong>, Mad Jack Records<\/strong>, Alvin Youngblood Hart<\/strong>) when Harry was subbing in for a gig at another Beale Street club. Then came noted session bassist Landon Moore<\/strong> (North Mississippi All-Stars<\/strong>, Chris Robinson Brotherhood<\/strong>). Then came the Icelandic businessmen, the recording studio, and Future Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"A band that had barely formed a month before completed its debut EP in shotgun style\u2014Harry called it \u201csome sort of magic.\u201d They recorded every track live, often keeping the scratch vocals on the final cut. It felt so right that it\u2019s hard to believe this was Patrick\u2019s first time in the studio. Harry played big brother a bit, and the two visited just about every studio in Memphis before deciding on Ward Archer\u2019s Music + Arts Studios. Patrick said it was where they felt at home, and that having Kevin Houston<\/strong> (Buddy Guy<\/strong>, Jim Dickinson<\/strong>, Beale Street Caravan<\/strong>) behind the boards sold him on making the record there. And Cody Dickinson<\/strong> brought his blues ear to the producer\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n

For all their experience, for all their talent, this was a young band making its first record. Patrick never imagined he\u2019d be playing music for a living, and Harry, fresh off of heart surgery, never imagined he\u2019d be back in the thick of it, either. But they were, and they did it\u2014and it may just be no coincidence at all that it\u2019s called Future Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n


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\nThis article was published in The Local Voice<\/em> #158 (June 14-28, 2012)…<\/strong>Click here to download the PDF of issue #158<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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