Interview on 05/16/21 on WHYR FM Baton Rouge on “Sunday Songwriter Showcase” with Host David Randall:
soundcloud.com/nolamericana/patrick-cooper-whyr-969-fm
Article by Laura De Fazio in Offbeat Magazine, August 1, 2017:
www.offbeat.com/news/epic-two-city-mississippi-mini-tour/
Review of "Gris Gris In Your Face" in The Significato Journal by Kimmy Sophia Brown, October 31, 2013:
"“Holly Beach” tells the story of the hardship endured by people struck by Hurricane Katrina and then by Hurricane Rita a couple of years later. The line “There’s just sand where a town used to be,” sums it up.
“Courtesy of Valerie” is a catchy, bouncy little love song. It reminds me of something that The Rascals might have written.
“No Time to Cry,” would have made Hank Williams proud. I want to hear a yodel in this one, I want to hear him yodel the word, ‘blue’. It’s a great little country tune with these lines:
I could discover more ways to give my body abuse...do whatever it takes to let my demons loose...
“Don’t Make Me Put it All in a Song,” has a Jimmy Buffett feel to it.
“The Boy Laughs Too Much,” has a searing dobro and seems to have been written about a smirking juvenile who can’t take life seriously. It has the ironic message many disappointed adults foist upon the young:
One day he’ll learn that the world is not a funny place.
One day he’ll feel hot tears running down his face.
Then he’ll be just like us!
Then he’ll be just like us.
The more I listen to Patrick, the more I like him. This is a guy who has been playing music all his life and putting his heart in it."
Review of "Holly Beach" in Songladder.com by Nat Allister, January 24, 2017:
"'Holly Beach' has the classic American sorrow of a coal miner's ballad, though happens instead to be sung in the voice of a New Orleans fisherman. The song documents the last decade or so of the work in its historical context, citing Gulf Coast hurricane devastation and government involvement (or lack thereof). This is a remarkably refreshing folk song, familiar in its lyrical style (many thousands of American ballads have been written about the difficulties facing the working class), but with an unfamiliar setting and narrator. Or at least, I should say that I haven't heard any such folk music like this. The melody is spot on and Patrick Cooper's voice and guitar ring out perfectly."
Review of "Gris Gris In Your Face" in Offbeat Magazine, November, 2013:
" 'She Leads With Her Heart' accesses some believable melancholy, the palpable feeling in Cooper's mild vibrato picked up by (Dwight) Breland's pedal steel, while 'Happy Boy Blues' bounces along with some complexity, thanks largely to (Andy J.) Forest's lively harmonica."
11 Things With Leigh Jones (Podcast Interview with Leigh Jones)
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/0/b/9/0b945561b0b28fe4/Ep._39_Patrick_Cooper.mp3?c_id=7412083&expiration=1406080274&hwt=8c81c42d5ac7a119eee70491ada3ac8e
soundcloud.com/nolamericana/patrick-cooper-whyr-969-fm
Article by Laura De Fazio in Offbeat Magazine, August 1, 2017:
www.offbeat.com/news/epic-two-city-mississippi-mini-tour/
Review of "Gris Gris In Your Face" in The Significato Journal by Kimmy Sophia Brown, October 31, 2013:
"“Holly Beach” tells the story of the hardship endured by people struck by Hurricane Katrina and then by Hurricane Rita a couple of years later. The line “There’s just sand where a town used to be,” sums it up.
“Courtesy of Valerie” is a catchy, bouncy little love song. It reminds me of something that The Rascals might have written.
“No Time to Cry,” would have made Hank Williams proud. I want to hear a yodel in this one, I want to hear him yodel the word, ‘blue’. It’s a great little country tune with these lines:
I could discover more ways to give my body abuse...do whatever it takes to let my demons loose...
“Don’t Make Me Put it All in a Song,” has a Jimmy Buffett feel to it.
“The Boy Laughs Too Much,” has a searing dobro and seems to have been written about a smirking juvenile who can’t take life seriously. It has the ironic message many disappointed adults foist upon the young:
One day he’ll learn that the world is not a funny place.
One day he’ll feel hot tears running down his face.
Then he’ll be just like us!
Then he’ll be just like us.
The more I listen to Patrick, the more I like him. This is a guy who has been playing music all his life and putting his heart in it."
Review of "Holly Beach" in Songladder.com by Nat Allister, January 24, 2017:
"'Holly Beach' has the classic American sorrow of a coal miner's ballad, though happens instead to be sung in the voice of a New Orleans fisherman. The song documents the last decade or so of the work in its historical context, citing Gulf Coast hurricane devastation and government involvement (or lack thereof). This is a remarkably refreshing folk song, familiar in its lyrical style (many thousands of American ballads have been written about the difficulties facing the working class), but with an unfamiliar setting and narrator. Or at least, I should say that I haven't heard any such folk music like this. The melody is spot on and Patrick Cooper's voice and guitar ring out perfectly."
Review of "Gris Gris In Your Face" in Offbeat Magazine, November, 2013:
" 'She Leads With Her Heart' accesses some believable melancholy, the palpable feeling in Cooper's mild vibrato picked up by (Dwight) Breland's pedal steel, while 'Happy Boy Blues' bounces along with some complexity, thanks largely to (Andy J.) Forest's lively harmonica."
11 Things With Leigh Jones (Podcast Interview with Leigh Jones)
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/0/b/9/0b945561b0b28fe4/Ep._39_Patrick_Cooper.mp3?c_id=7412083&expiration=1406080274&hwt=8c81c42d5ac7a119eee70491ada3ac8e
