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Pat Roden
Westwood International Records |
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Pat Roden is a new signing to Universal Sound Records and is currently in the process of recording her first album for the label. In the meantime, USR have decided to distribute this first album, recorded on the Westwood Sound Label, that up until now has not seen very much media exposure. The
album contains a generous 13 tracks of modern country music with a
mix of country/rockers and ballads that leans slightly more in favour
of the former. There are some great songs on here from some of country
music's finest writers like Curt Ryle, Larry Cordle, and Gail Davies,
with the latter providing the excellent opener, the rocking, "Ready
To Fall In Love." Other country rockers on here include a great version of the Loretta Lynn/Conway Twitty classic, "After The Fire Is Gone." a song penned by L E White that owes more to the later Ricky Lynn Gregg version than it does to the original. I also liked "Workin' Like A Dog," the excellent, "You're Old Flame's Goin' Out Tonight" and the Curt Ryle/Curtis Wright co-write, "I Tripped Over Your Memory" a song also recorded by Mindy Miller on her USR debut album. Among
the ballads on the album, Curt Ryle is also in the writing credits
for "Every Other Weekend" a
story of heartbreak after the break up of a marriage as well as the
albums closer, the story of tragedy in "Never
Had A Prayer." There is also an excellent version of
the Larry Cordle/Carl Jackson penned "Lonesome
Dove," Backed up by some fine musician's, this is an excellent album from Pat Roden, a lady with a great voice who I am sure is going to go on to much better things. Although her style is more for the rockier side of country, it is still very much COUNTRY and I look forward to the prospect of her sophomore album recorded with the help of T Jae Christian and his talented crew at Universal Sound Records.
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