Biography
As a bluegrass and country specialist on guitar and songwriting, Pat Flynn initially drew notice through his role in New Grass Revival, where he contributed to the band’s releases Live (1984), On the Boulevard (1984), New Grass Revival (1986), Hold to a Dream (1987), and Friday Night in America (1989) while also supplying original material for those projects, among them the title tracks of On the Boulevard and Friday Night in America. One such composition, “Do What You Gotta Do,” written for Friday Night in America, later appeared on Garth Brooks’s Sevens (1997); Flynn performed on the recording, which first charted at number 62 on the country list before a 2000 reissue lifted it to number 13 country and number 69 pop. Following his time with New Grass Revival, Flynn established himself as a sought-after session player across country, lending his work to projects by the Bellamy Brothers, Mark Chesnutt, Nanci Griffith, Loretta Lynn, Kathy Mattea, Michael Martin Murphey, Leon Russell, George Strait, Randy Travis, Conway Twitty, and Lee Ann Womack, among many others, throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His first solo album, reQuest, appeared on August 10, 2004.
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