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Sammy Patrick
Samuel Jay Patrick, born March 14, 1979 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is a musician (lead guitarist, lead vocalist, songwriter) influenced by and a performer of rock, folk-rock, jam-band and Mississippi Delta blues styles. He is based in Savannah, Georgia as a resident of Tybee Island, Georgia and with frequent stints in San Francisco, California. SammyPatrick.com

In 2003, while living in Mobile, Alabama (1999 to 2006) Sammy Patrick and musician Mike Phillips (lead guitarist, bass guitarist, vocalist) founded the band Powderfingers, which has varied throughout the years since its inception, ranging from a two-piece acoustic act to an electric, southern-rock jam-band. Powderfingers' material consisted of some of Patrick's previously-written songs, such as "Groundwork", "With Ease", "Limbs", some material written specifically for the Powderfingers project, like "Powderfinger Trigger-Pull Blues" and "Coroner's Report", along with the presence of improvisational, mood-based musical explorations of jam between Patrick, Phillips and other guest members of Powderfingers, including Brett LaGrave and Alex Outlaw in recent years and Drew Covert and Jeremy Higginbotham in the first few years, to name a few.

Though Patrick relocated to Savannah in 2006, Powderfingers has continued to exist through occasional week-long series of musical engagements throughout Alabama. The current arrangement of Powderfingers is of an electric rock format with Sammy Patrick playing a rare, humbucker-powdered Martin Stinger, Mike Phillips' active approach to bass guitar that drives the music with enough force behind it to grant Patrick safe openings to creative paths in the three-piece structure with drummer and official addition to Powderfingers, Alex Outlaw, who takes an organic approach to performing a show, seeking an openness in possibilities.

Currently in the Savannah area Sammy Patrick regularly performs a number of times each week with other artists in two-piece groups, like the Chris Godfrey / Sammy Patrick Duo featuring Chris Godfrey (guitar, lead vocals) of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based jam and rock band Hannaward Pass (formerly known as Elijah Blue). The Chris Godfrey / Sammy Patrick Duo's playlist, all of which showcases Patrick strictly in the lead guitarist role, includes many of Godfrey's songs that Hannaward Pass performed during its existence, such as "Better Days", "Wake", "Gather Your Belongings" and "Saucy J." hannawardpass.com

The role Sammy Patrick takes primarily flips in another often-gigging pairing, Sammy Patrick & Patrick Williams (lead guitarist, vocalist). With Patrick Williams on lead guitar the performances are laced with songs from Powderfingers' repertoire, along with other works from Sammy Patrick's catalog, like "City About A Girl", "Aurora Borealis" and "Light Of The World", along with "Clay Boyd Fields", which appeared on "Ocean Springs Originals", a studio compilation CD featuring artists from the Mississippi Gulf Coast that was recorded in The Scharr-Ello Studio at the Mary C in Ocean Springs and released in May of 2009. []TheMaryC.org Another collaboration with an altered composition is between Sammy Patrick and Paxton Willis (drummer, lead vocalist, guitarist) of the Savannah-based jam-band, Mr. Wiley. Jason Harrelson (lead guitarist) of Hannaward Pass from The Woodlands, TX, Brett LaGrave (lead guiatrist, lead vocalist) of the Brett LaGrave Band in Mobile, AL, Eric Britt (lead vocalist, guitarist) of Hazel Virtue in Charleston, SC & Savannah, GA, Joe Gliden (pedal-steel guitarist) of Louisville, KY each perform with Sammy Patrick when paths cross. Kellee Kessler (vocalist) of Savannah, GA frequently guests in each of the possible show billing title combos.

Sammy Patrick also performs solo acoustic dates on a regular basis, allowing for a different pull of selections from his catalog of writings, including "Postmodern World / The Great Experiment", "It Was Raining (The Day I Died)", "Spook", "Moonlight Graham" and "As You Wish".