{"id":16440,"date":"2019-04-25T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:06:24","slug":"alias-patrick-kelly-claiming-his-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/alias-patrick-kelly-claiming-his-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alias Patrick Kelly: Claiming His Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Kelly was a longtime fixture of the Asheville music scene back in the days when one could argue there really wasn\u2019t<\/em> a scene. As bassist for the Goodies, Kelly helped deliver a cabaret-flavored rock vibe to the Western North Carolina mountains. Today he\u2019s back where he started, in Atlanta, and his original material \u2013 created using the name Alias Patrick Kelly \u2013 leans in a more Americana direction. But the lessons he learned decades ago inform his new music, including his new EP An Unclaimed Inheritance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Kelly\u2019s previous release, Corruptibility Index<\/em>, had a strong rock flavor, and showcased a carefully layered production aesthetic. But the new EP is more unadorned, and draws from the heartland twang end of the musical pool, with a sound that in places recalls Jason and the Scorchers. \u201cI was trying to be myself as much as I could be, really,\u201d Kelly says. \u201cI had a pile of songs to choose from, and I wanted to do something that I could turn around really quick.\u201d He admits that he\u2019s been on a bit of Bruce Springsteen kick lately\u2014\u201cNebraska<\/em> is a top five all-time favorite record for me,\u201d he says\u2014and that no-nonsense approach to record-making influenced the creation of An Unclaimed Inheritance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had this little group of songs that were all kind of acoustic-based, but I didn\u2019t want to just put out a plain acoustic record,\u201d Kelly explains. \u201cI\u2019m more ambitious with my instrumentation and arrangements.\u201d As he began to put together the songs for the EP, he realized that a theme developed. \u201cThey all seemed to live in the same spot, and almost every song had some kind of family-esque or companionship and friendship thing. They all just made sense together,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s nothing at all pretentious about Kelly nor his new EP, the artist does acknowledge an affinity for albums built around a common thematic foundation. \u201cI like to group songs together,\u201d Kelly says. \u201cI like full albums. The last thing I want to be is a guy just doing one single at a time on Spotify with no direction other than a single song.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like movies, not 30-minute sitcoms,\u201d he quips.<\/p>\n

But Kelly didn\u2019t sit down to write a half dozen songs that hung together thematically. That happened organically, as the result of where he found himself in life. \u201cI\u2019d gotten married about three years ago, and I became a stepfather all of a sudden,\u201d he says. \u201cAll that was new to me. I was definitely feeling the gravity of that. Because it\u2019s something you have to take seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the EP\u2019s songs deals with the challenges of writing in a creatively unencouraging environment. \u201cThat one\u2019s about wanting to move out of the townhouse we live in outside of Atlanta,\u201d Kelly says with a wry laugh. \u201cAs a songwriter, it\u2019s not the most conducive place to work on material. So it\u2019s about \u2018get me the hell out of here,\u2019 which we still haven\u2019t done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s settled in Atlanta, Kelly looks back fondly upon his time in the Asheville music community. He started playing with the Goodies when he was 19, and says that the experience taught him a lot about music and songwriting. He says that Goodies front man Holiday Childress was a major influence on his own songwriting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were roommates for, like, five years,\u201d he says. \u201cI was sitting there in the room when he was writing [those songs]. I would ask him questions like, \u2018Why\u2019d you scratch that out and put that there instead?\u2019 More than anything, the thing I learned from him was what not to use, and why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly has plenty of amusing stories from his Asheville days. \u201cI fell down the stairs going to the bathroom at Be Here Now, covered in melted snow,\u201d he recalls with a laugh. \u201cI just slipped! There was a line of girls at the bottom of the stairs, and right when I hit the bottom step, they were all gasping. I looked up and said, \u2018I\u2019ve fallen for all of you.\u2019 Half of them thought it was funny and charming, and a couple of them gave me a scowl because they thought I was some drunk asshole. I wasn\u2019t even drunk yet!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of a February live date in Asheville, Kelly expressed enthusiasm for returning to his old stomping grounds. \u201cIt\u2019s my first trip up there playing by myself,\u201d Kelly said.\u201dIt\u2019s tricky; no one knows who I am. I think the thing that got my foot in the door was when I said, \u2018Yeah, I was in the Goodies for 20-plus years.\u2019 That certainly helped.\u201d But he\u2019s realistic about how far that association gets him. \u201cIf I suck, they\u2019ll never book me again,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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