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Barry Patterson is a double shot of  musical goodness.  Whether he is your producer or guitaring you into a better place, you win.

Barry earned himself a Dove nomination for his production work with Ten Shekel Shirt and has worked as a producer for sixteen plus years, with his hands in every genre but rap (there’s still time). Barry has made honing his clients’ individual sound into a science and he is gifted at drawing out potential. In other words, you will come away sounding exactly like you wanted to sound….only way better.

Barry is a guitar man from a way back.  He moves seamlessly between acoustic and electric, with electric being his favorite expression.  Production clients can never resist featuring his work on their own projects, as he speaks all guitar languages fluently. Whether you need a gritty blues riff, a moody Mayer-esque layer, some driving distortion or a travis picking folk bed, Barry’s got you covered.

When he is not on the singer-songwriter road himself, Barry works from his studio in Florissant, Colorado.  He is a Pro-Tools man these days and has expertise in engineering, mixing, mastering and audio consultation to boot.

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I play bass — upright and electric. I run a nationally-recognized commercial music program at a private school in Denver. I’ve been on the road with a band out of Nashville. I’m from Memphis, and my family is from Louisiana. I bring all those influences — from the Meters to Alison Krauss, from Otis Redding to John Coltrane, from Celia Cruz to Booker T and the MG’s — to everything I do.

Music, as a whole, is what I do, and I feel comfortable in all styles – folk, bebop, soul, country, R&B, pop, reggae, classical – everything. I’ve played in symphony orchestras and I’ve played in blues acoustic duos and everything in between. I don’t specialize in one style of music as I feel I’m better able to bring a more interesting character to your song. That said, I’m also not offended when someone asks me to just play whole notes. In the end, I play for the song. I play to support and bring out the best in your song. Maybe it’s an underlying bubble ala Tony Levin, maybe it’s a soul line ala Duck Dunn, or maybe it’s a crazy bowed bass line ala Edgar Meyer. The relationship between the drums and the bass is the foundation for any song, and I strive to help create that solid bond that will help your song to soar.

I also write charts. If you’re tired of handing out lyric sheets with chords because you’d like more control over how your band sounds, or if you would just like to make them available to on your website, let me know, as I can create a professional publish-ready chart. I also have access to a full recording studio in my office where I teach, which is the main reason we’re doing this crazy Recording Bazaar thing – to better facilitate the connection between the songwriter and the studio musician. So whether it’s laying down a bass track, arranging a string quartet or horns, or mixing your project, let me know how I can help put the sound in your head to tape…or hard disk, as the case may be…

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A brief sound bite…

I deeply care about music and obsess over everything involved in song crafting and record making. The overwhelming majority of thoughts circling in my mind are melodies, harmonies and rhythms set to poetry and how all those dynamic elements can converge into something meaningful and lasting for the human race. Some musicians enjoy playing other peoples songs. I strive to create new ones and help others find their unique and inspired voice in process.

Besides making music, I capture it and package it up nicely for the listening pleasure of the masses. I am a trained recording, mix and mastering engineer with a decade of experience and a full production recording studio at my disposal.

I gladly work with all genres, but have a deep love and knowledge for all things indie-rock, indie-folk, alt-country and post-rock.

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