Patrick Elkins
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Patrick Ryan Elkins (b. 1976) is an American singer-songwriter.
He has played with a number of other groups, including Catch A Wave, Ever Will You Get There, The Aleise Barnett Good-Bye Band, Dyslexic Bob, The Posh Boys, Orgasmic Cookies, The John Merrick Appreciation Society, Mischief Mouse, Video Games, Rainbow Island, Jimes, Actual Birds Mind Expansion Ensemble, (Ultimate) Catfight of the Century, Suns of the Universe, This Must Be The Place (a Talking Heads cover band), Strange Meat, The Sonshine Band, Zombie Gutz, Hot Meat for Young Lovers, Petroleum Bloodfang, Liquid Gods, and Slither.
Elkins has released 4 full-length albums of music and his writings have been published in Display Magazine, Gravity Presses, and The Ypsi Mix (the official newsletter of the Ypsilanti Food Co-op).
[edit] Personal
Raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Elkins moved to Ypsilanti to attend Eastern Michigan University, the fourth in a series of public institutions he attended after graduating high school.
Although he dropped out of EMU in 2003 and moved to Olympia shortly thereafter, Ypsilanti has served as Patrick's base of operations since he returned there in the spring of 2004.
[edit] Discography
- Chew Your Own Neck (2003)
- Maximum Volume (2004)
- The New Folk Sounds of Patrick Elkins (2005)
- Patrick Elkins [cassette] (2005)
- The Bible or Africa [Ypsilanti Records Tuesday series] (2005)
- Fruits of the Spirit (2006)
- Live in L.A. [split cassette with Princess Xanthipe] (2006)
- Mix 96 [split cassette with Princess Xanthipe] (2006)
