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Patchwork Jack – Whiz-Bang!, My Heart Sang
"In the hopeless 20’s of our century, with charts dominated by animatronic cover bands and trap remixes of dial tones, what would a rag-tag band of folk musicians hope to achieve by releasing their debut album, “Whiz-Bang!, My Heart Sang”? What songs are left to sing?
And yet – for the first time in months test audiences report waking up with an ear-worm that wasn’t a literal insect. Ringleader Shane Lory guides you through scenes of honey-passion with Texan sincerity and apocalyptic wit from a place where music still pours out from porches with the first cool, Colorado breeze. Accompanied by the depth and humor of a seasoned folk band “Whiz Bang!” greets our predicament with a knowing smile that won’t leave you behind.
Patchwork Jack is as much a band as it is a neighborhood – living, eating, and arguing with eachother so closely they’ve become their own pocket of folk tradition, and their album, captured in luscious tape thanks to the incredible Mark Anderson of Cowboy Cowabunga Recordings, feels like gazing into the timelessness of human expression preserved in amber, with all the dirty laundry and inside jokes intact.
Patchwork Jack are musician’s musicians, rich with depth in form and changes in time that tickle the intellect and excite the stomach. WB!MHS is a record packed with surprises and a new delight around every bar, seamlessly incorporating musical skill into a unified emotional expression with you as the last member of the band; they’ll pluck your heartstrings and stomp the ash right off your boots. “Whiz-Bang!, My Heart Sang” will absolutely give you something to crawl back out of your hole for.
- Forrest Alvarez - Flying Pig Farm