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The Happy Handyman has retired his hammer & picked up his guitar.
Press Release - Buy The Happy Handyman Tribute CD here: Top 40 Artists play Pat B. songs to benefit Oxford House Inc.
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       Pat’s hammer busted more doors open for him in Music City than his guitar. After flunking his first audition at what Vince Gill calls “the center of the songwriting universe,” Bluebird Café, the owner, Amy Kurland hired him to remodel the restroom and hang out for free. “It was songwriting school for me.” Pat recalls. “Quite often, I got to listen to songwriters' first performances of what would later become one of the world’s greatest songs. Songs that were true, right out a songwriter’s life became my favorites. I quit trying to write hits and started telling my story. Then I started getting cuts.”

In a recent Country Music History book, Amy is quoted. “The laconic wit in his songs definitely sets him apart in Music City.” Along side supporting Pat’s work opening halfway houses in Nashville, together, Pat and Amy became the first to broadcast open mics on the Internet, 1997. Live at the Bluebird Cafe later ran five seasons on the Turner South Network. In Peter Bogdonovich’s movie about the Cafe, The thing Called Love (River Phoenix’s last movie, Sandra Bullock’s first) Pat was given a small role playing himself as a wanna-be-hit-songwriter. “They cut my big part in order to keep it PG.” Pat laments. Buy Pat's Oxford House benefit CD here


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