Artist description The latest Widow Hobbs production, "Selling Cancer to the Stars", represents the current form of the ongoing, one-man musical experiment conceived and orchestrated by Patrick Goodrich. An emotionally potent and playfully grim tour de force, this deceptively simple home-produced album showcases Patricks' manifold talents as both a mature singer/songwriter and a skilled, innovative musical performer/producer. Alternately dreamy and jarring, stripped-down and symphonic, this disk advances with both sonic and intellectual texture as its songs engage a twisted range of themes, moods, and personae. Delightfully disturbing in its observations and introversions, the music of The Widow Hobbs has been generally described as nothing less than "the soundtrack to the disenchanted state of the modern spirit striving toward a coherant, unsettling punchline." Neither a small-town travelling coffehouse jam-band folkie, nor a homebound, onanistic industrial techno-electro geek, Patrick styles his well-crafted songs around intricate but hooky guitar work, judicious layers of vocals and samples, and clever, unpretentious songwriting.

Music Style Alternative Progressive Swankadelic Independent Rock

Musical Influences Soundgarden, Blind Melon, Grant Lee Buffalo, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, REM, John Lennon, Modest Mouse, The Eels, Sparklehorse, Beethoven, Mahler...

Similar Artists Jeff Buckley, REM, Grant Lee Buffalo, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Sparklehorse

Artist History Subject to the mundane suburban community of Gilroy, California for the past ten years, Patrick, now 27, has responded by writing and recording over 150 original songs from the comfort of his own home-studio. Detectable, but not derivative, influences range from The Beatles to The Eels, while copping feels from Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, early Grant Lee Buffalo, and Radiohead.

Group Members Patrick Goodrich

Instruments Vocals, Electric and Acoustic guitars, mandolin, dulcimer, all kinds of effects, percussion

Albums Ulalescity, Peeling an Onion, Behind Venitian Blinds, Evil's Little Secret, Fuel for Insanity, Grey Metal Sky, The Raining Bile, Selling Cancer to the Stars

Location Gilroy, CA - USA

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