Following up the success of his first single in 2021, ‘Opera on the Top Floor’, Jack O’Rourke is back with new single ‘Patsy Cline’. Both singles offer a taste of Jack’s new album, Wild Place. Never one to shy away from the personal, the Cork songwriter has approached these recordings with a starker musical palette in mind – the arrangements representative of a more solitary, yet cathartic place, that Jack and many songwriters found themselves in over the last year. The piano and Jack’s ranging voice dominate, with subtle string arrangements to present a moving and original body of work out later this year.
Patsy Cline is about a wild love – all that’s exciting and beautiful – the wild place where that exists, even in a memory. Her voice is evocative and honeyed but that raw quality is always there. There’s a primal, reckless quality to her voice and I suppose in a great love, you’re being thrown in directions you never imagined, like the journey Patsy Cline brings you on in her delivery. That’s exciting but scary.
Jack O’Rourke
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