Courtney Patton

is a storyteller.

She’s also a mother, a wife, a producer, a singer, a songwriter, a tour-van driver and a musician-

as well as a world-traveler when she’s out on tour throughout the continental U.S., Canada and

Europe. But to anyone lucky enough to be sitting in the audience while listening to her

expansive Texas twang belt out her version of deep and soulful country music, she’s a

storyteller. In a musical era in which clichés and bravado are mistaken for bold noteworthiness,

there is something far more brave in peeling back highly personal and emotional open-book

songs and delivering them with sensitivity and sentiment. Patton does just that. She is the

consummate storyteller in her music. Heartache isn’t just described, it is tangibly felt.

Following her previous solo albums, Triggering a Flood (2013) and So This Is Life (2015), and her acoustic collaborative project with her husband and fellow Texas troubadour Jason Eady,

Something Together, (2017), Patton has drawn on true life day-to-day autobiographical life

experiences and released her third album, What It’s Like To Fly Alone, earlier this year.

Patton explains the genesis behind the project, “The album is titled after one of its songs,

“What It’s Like to Fly Alone”. The title sounds melancholy, but the resolve isn’t. This record is

full of songs about people who have had to “fly alone” in some way, whether through grief,

loss, life choices, addiction or love. We have to work through our struggles, choose our own

destiny, just like the characters in each song. We have to make ourselves happy. No one else

can do that for us. I’ve been down in all of those ways, but I chose happiness. In the end, “flying

alone” is soaring because you pick your path and you find your way.”

She’s shared the stage with leading lights of the country-folk scene including Walt Wilkins,

Bruce Robison, Jamie Lin Wilson, Cody Jinks, Sunny Sweeney, Brennen Leigh and Drew

Kennedy. Musicians on her latest project include musical talents such as Chip Bricker, piano

player with Gene Watson's highly acclaimed Farewell Party Band, Austin City Limits Hall Of

Fame member Lloyd Maines on pedal steel, Heather Stalling (wife of Texas troubadour Max

Stalling) on fiddle, and Jamie Lin Wilson (The Trishas) and Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss & Union

Station) on background vocals.

What might be most remarkable, however, is that Patton is doing this all independently. After

having Kennedy produce her last album, Patton took the production reins this time around,

further cementing this as her most personal work to date. There is no marketing team or music

label support. It’s Patton and her spirited passion for the music that has her hands-on over

every part of her career.

That makes the fact that What It’s Like To Fly Alone debuted as high at #4 on the i-

Tunes country chart and made a mark across four different Billboard album charts (including a

Top 20 mark on their Americana Albums Sales chart) all the more remarkable.

But then again, Patton is a storyteller. It only makes sense.

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