About
Pat Hardy
In Brief:
The music of Pat Hardy has been described as Leonard Cohen meets The White Stripes. His story that begins on the lonely, always reaching never arriving plains of West Texas, and is currently taking place where Piety and Desire Sts. run side by side in New Orleans. Pat writes introspective songs, wherein he explores how love, lust, loneliness, God, anxiety, and the search for meaning couple with with Americana sensibilities, sincere vocal delivery, rich harmonies, some slide guitar, and a polished organic production style. Pat has been performing for about a decade, and currently has three albums and a hand-full of singles available for streaming.
Biographical Summary:
Pat Hardy was born onto the barren plains of West Texas. Growing up in a small town twenty miles outside of Midland, TX, Pat felt the echoes of Roy Orbison saying, “there was a lot of loneliness in West Texas.” Like Orbison, Pat found he could channel that West Texas loneliness into music. Pat wrote, produced, performed, and recorded his first EP “Fallen From Grace” in a small barely air-conditioned room before he graduated high school.
Next for Pat were the cotton fields and red dirt of Lubbock, TX. Here Pat refined his writing style, engineering skills, and distinct style. In this time, he wrote, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered Insomniac Lullabies, They Fly From Me, and Hope Takes a Smoke Break and produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered Mountain of Lies for Hayden Spears.
After his time in the dessert, Pat traveled the country looking for adventure and a place to call home. Pat drove and gigged from Los Cruces, New Mexico to Portland, Maine. Monasteries, the backseat of his car, run down centenarian houses in Massachusetts, spare bed rooms, air mattresses, and couches were Pat’s home during that time. Ultimately, he fell for the charms of New Orleans, LA where he currently calls home.