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Patrick Flynn - Good News
- Good News, from Patrick Flynn, is an album from a melodist/percussionist/drummer that resides in New York City and suffuses upbeat and rocking rhythms into each and every song. Some of the tracks have maudlin messages, but they eventually rebel against that notion to be optimistic in their instrumentation. Flynn’s quick-witted vocals express his ability to mesh his innermost thoughts and country music into one harmonious entity.
On the first track, hard hitting guitar play elicits listeners’ attention immediately. Flynn then emotes a mixture of country and blues as he sings about how he feels when he awakens from his bed, and his emotions are far from congenial. He croons about his feelings with lines like, “Woke up this mornin’…Misunderstandings and negativity. All these bad vibrations about to lay me low. Then I hear a knockin’ on my front door. I hope it's good news. I hope it's good news. I hope it's good news baby cuz I’m so damn tired of these blues.” Flynn’s voice sounds bushed and beaten, and this song seems to be an anthem by Flynn asking for some relief from his despondency.
The second track begins with an eccentric rhythm that has a futuristic flow to it. Then, what sounds like a violin invades the tune and the total melody proceeds to reverberate. The guitar work has an expressive modulation that listeners will not be able to deny, as Flynn expounds introspective lines such as, “I know the time has come you must go and do the things you have to do. The things that until now your life you never took the time to do. The answers come and go. That don’t mean they show you what you’re lookin’ for. For that you look inside to the depths of love and what you’re fightin’ for. Don’t take your love away.” Listeners might feel a kindred spirit in Flynn, thanks to this song, and empathize with him and thus form an unbreakable musical bond with this track.
With the ninth track, an old time country vibe gushes out which might cause listeners to engage in a hoedown. Yet, the message of this song is joyless as Flynn goes on about being utterly alone in this world and not being able to rely on anyone but himself. He emotes sullen lines such as, “We ain’t got nobody in this world. We ain’t got nobody in this world. We ain’t got nobody in this world. You got nobody. Nobody but yourself. You may think you’ve got somebody in this world…You may think you found true lovin’. All too soon it’s taken back. You may think you ask your maker to delay your misery. When he finally opens your eyes. Honey you know the truth will set you free.” It seems Flynn is trying to notify listeners that although they may think they have it made, be watchful and guarded for unanticipated mishaps to occur, and that the Almighty one is always there watching over your every move.
Patrick Flynn’s Good News might seem like a paradox of a title for a record where many of the tracks are about sadness and bad happenings. But the convivial instrumentation might deflect those downtrodden feelings so listeners can concentrate on Flynn’s somniferous vocals.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Added: 22-Sep-2007
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