Biography
PATRICK GODBEY'S BIO:
Born and raised in Houston, Patrick Godbey is a Texas singer-songwriter-guitarist no matter where he hangs his hat (New Orleans at the moment). Godbey is best known as the guitarist and chief songwriter for the legendary Texas hardcore band Dresden 45 (1985-1994). That should change as his solo project gains momentum. After a long period of musical inactivity, Godbey moved to Austin in 1999 and started writing more songs. The songs that emerged were very different from anything he had written for Dresden 45, reflecting a different set of distinctly American influences: Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Willie Nelson to name a few. He formed the Patrick Godbey Band in 2004 and -- after not performing for more than a decade -- started gigging around the incredibly crowded "Live Music Capital of the World." The Patrick Godbey Band released an eponymous CD in 2006: a collection of 12 carefully wrought original songs performed, not by studio pros, but by an honest-to-god rock 'n' roll band, including hard-hitting drummer Jeff Chavez from Dresden 45. The CD features Godbey's songwriting skills and rock guitar chops more or less equally and reminds one of the highly literate debut records of singer-songwriters like Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, and James McMurtry. Godbey is many things: a punk rock veteran, a slick guitarist, a talented singer-songwriter, a boat owner, a Gen Xer, a card-carrying member of the ACLU, and a failed academic. He has been overheard describing his current sound as "a little bit Jerry Garcia, a little bit Jerry Jeff Walker" and "Dylan at his most electric."
Instrumentation
Jim Ghivizzani (bass)
Patrick Godbey (vocals, guitar)
Kimberly Price (vocals)
Heath Rogers (keyboards)
Jeff "Dirty Doc" Watson (drums)
Discography
The Patrick Godbey Band, The Patrick Godbey Band, Amorous Crocodile Records, 2006
Links
| http://www.myspace.com/patrickgodbey |