Pat Boyack (born June 26, 1967,
Price
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, Utah, United States)
is an American
electric blues guitarist and songwriter. Boyack performs modern electric blues and
blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes w ...
. He has released four albums since 1994, for both the Bullseye Blues and Doc Blues record labels.
Biography
Boyack was born in Price, but grew up in
Helper, Utah.
At the age of fifteen he had his first guitar, and listened to a college friend's
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, ...
album.
Inspired by contemporary Texas blues, Boyack moved to
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
, Texas, in 1991, and played in a number of bar bands, including Rocket 88s. In 1993, Boyack formed the Prowlers with John Garza (bass) and Doug Swancy (drums). The Prowlers added Jimmy Morello (singer/harmonica) and secured a recording contract with Bullseye Blues Records (part of
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Al ...
).
Pat Boyack & the Prowlers debut album ''Breakin' In'' (1994), was followed by ''On the Prowl'' (1996). By the time the third album, ''Super Blue & Funky'', was released in 1997, a new backing band had been assembled, which took far less prominent billing.
Boyack left the
music industry
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for two years to support his wife and first child, then in 2000 Boyack's former label mate,
Marcia Ball, recruited him to her backing band.
Following a change in record label, Boyack's fourth album, ''Voices from the Street'' was released in May 2004.
Discography
Albums
See also
*
List of electric blues musicians
References
External links
Official websitePhotographs at Google.co.uk
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1967 births
Living people
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
Songwriters from Utah
Electric blues musicians
Guitarists from Utah
People from Price, Utah
20th-century American guitarists
People from Helper, Utah
20th-century American male musicians
American male songwriters