Don't Let Your Love Life Get You Down

Description

Jaye Jayle’s music perfectly suits the hours after midnight, when the house lights are dim, the air is thick with humidity and tobacco smoke, perceptions are chemically altered, and each note carries so much more weight. On his new album, “Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down”, Patterson continues to mine his unique brand of meditative blues while finally breaking free from the shackles of defeat and moving into a realm residing somewhere between Western stoicism and mystical wonder. He is joined as always by Todd Cook, Corey Smith, and Neal Argabright, as well as special guests Chris Maggio, Victoria Fisher, Patrick Shiroishi, and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Ben Chisholm, producer and multi-instrumentalist (Chelsea Wolfe), and Jaye Jayle's "secret" member, mixed the album in the style of a "velvet landscape": "He is a genius to my ears. Ben's ideas are modern and saturated with layers of sonic color. He takes the old template of the American singer-songwriter and infuses it with a kaleidoscope of sonic textures culled from a half-century of marginal music." He ensured that the album's songs were "devastating, hopeful, and emotionally direct."