By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: Patrick Ames – Harmonium-Release date June 1, 2022
Having a number of years behind you brings some solid life experience, of course, if you know how to see value from it, and as somebody who is composing, playing, and recording music, know how to transform it into something your listeners will both like and cherish.
Californian singer songwriter Patrick Ames has those years, and on the evidence of “Harmonium,’ his latest album he is able to transform the experience he has accumulated into something that will surely appeal to his listeners.
He also has two other advantages; he owns a vineyard and produces wine and also has quite a solid taste in music – combining soulful Americana of Dan Penn and laid back vocal and guitar style of J.J. Cale and adding touches of that prime seventies California soft rock.
Maybe good wine helps, abut also probably the fact that Ames started writing songs back in 1968 when he was 14, and turned to book publishing after college. That passion for books and writing certainly reflects in the fact that Ames takes his lyrics as an equal element within his music, something quite a number of singer songwriters tend to treat as an afterthought.
Throughout the album, voice of experience speaks both through Ames’ laid-back grooves and well thought out lyrics, something that definitely goes well with good wine, oh and cheese Ames mentions in the closer ‘Grace.’
If ‘Harmonium’ is anything to go by, we should definitely try to get our hand on the wine Ames makes.
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