Over the course of ten songs, Jade Marie Patek stakes her place within the nation music world and reveals us why she’s right here to remain. 

Jade Marie Patek – Tune In My Head

Jade Marie Patek makes her long-anticipated album debut with ‘Tune In My Head’ and the undertaking is value each minute of the wait. Followers nostalgic for the authenticity and charming twang of 90s nation music will rejoice at Patek, whose highly effective voice and heartfelt storytelling are a welcome breath of contemporary, Southern air. 

Patek is a local Texan, having spent her childhood within the cities of Shiner and Rockport. Music is as a lot part of her because the Lone Star State is, as inventive expertise runs in her household. Patek lists her grandfather, Joe Patek, as one in every of her largest musical influences. Again in his heyday, Joe was the chief of Joe Patek’s Orchestra, and is called a pioneer of Texas Czech polka music. 

Now, Patek is pioneering her personal sound, taking inspiration from artists from all kinds of genres — the singer-songwriter names Janis Joplin, Beth Hart, and The Allman Brothers Band as musical influences. Tune In My Head is illustrative of this, because the undertaking has a little bit one thing to swimsuit everybody’s style. The Americana album is a genre-defying journey full of every part from soul to southern rock to nation to blues. 

Tune In My Head follows Patek’s acclaimed 2018 debut EP Fly Chook. The undertaking’s distinctive sound garnered constructive opinions and landed Patek the title of Texas Regional Radio’s New Feminine Vocalist of the Yr. Since then, she’s launched a string of singles, and started enjoying stay band reveals in 2022, acting at numerous festivals all through america. 

However with Tune In My Head, Patek is lastly moving into the highlight. She’s stated earlier than that she loves “music that makes you’re feeling deep issues,” a quote that completely sums up the album’s listening expertise. Over memorable hooks and nation guitar licks oozing with Southern appeal, Patek channels the uncooked vocal energy of Sheryl Crow and the quick-witted lyricism of Shania Twain. Songs like “Voodoo Little one,” the album standout, with its groovy, haunting bassline, and “Passing By way of,” an ode to feminine independence, reveal Patek’s present as a compelling storyteller. 

However she doesn’t draw back from tough points, both. Whether or not she’s tackling substance use on “Lovely Liar,” commentating on the expertise of United States army veterans on “Simply to Survive,” or reflecting on her personal shortcomings on “Damage A Good Factor,” Patek’s songwriting reveals each her emotional depth and her refreshing capability for honesty. 

And similar to Patek, the undertaking is Texan to its core — she recorded it on a ranch simply outdoors of Austin, on the well-known yellow DOG Studios. Tune In My Head boasts contributions from Grammy-winning producer Adam Odor and options a powerful roster of artists, together with Bonnie Bishop, Midnight River Choir, Dustin Schaefer (of Shane Smith & the Saints), and Rio Tripiano. With a music video for “Voodoo Little one” (shot in New Orleans) slated for a June fifteenth launch and a schedule of stay performances on the horizon, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than Patek turns into a family title in nation music. 

Tune In My Head, with its disarming, heartfelt swagger, demonstrates why Patek is so endlessly endearing. The album is nothing if not honest, from begin to end. It’s a glowing, triumphant debut, one which solidifies Patek as one of many subsequent massive voices in nation. So crack open a chilly Shiner Bock and provides Tune In My Head a spin — one thing provides us the sensation we’ll be listening to much more from Jade Marie Patek within the years to come back. 

 “Followers nostalgic for the authenticity and charming twang of 90s nation music will rejoice at Patek, whose highly effective voice and heartfelt storytelling are a welcome breath of contemporary, Southern air.”

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