picture this: a girl transplants her "old kentucky home" into hell's kitchen in new york city. she forms a band - an eclectically flavored trio that is uniquely her. a sound she calls "garage soul". that girl is patty murray. while her guitar style lives somewhere between james brown and ac/dc...the songwriting is unabashedly pop. you can just tell patty grew up listening to her mother's am/fm radio. although it wasn't a boom-box, shirley's window-sill radio blasted everything from country legends to irresistible pop and one-hit wonders. it's easy to see why her music is so infectious.

hometown #1:
louisville, ky (valley station to the locals)
hometown #2:
nyc (hell's kitchen to the locals)

first musical instrument:
tambourine
(actually 2 paper plates staple together with dried beans inside)

gear/rig:
les paul '56 goldtop (reissue)
fender telecaster
fender jagstang
fender deluxe reverb (blackface)
boss gt-3, assorted stomp boxes
neumann kms 105

education #1:
university of louisville school of music
education #2:
hard knocks (nyc campus)

patty's predicament