Pat Donohue

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Blind Lemon Extract 03:23 Tools
Big Blind Bluesy 03:01 Tools
Statesboro Blues 03:35 Tools
Mudslide 03:06 Tools
Fall Creek 01:57 Tools
Freight Train 01:52 Tools
Trouble in Mind 03:39 Tools
Millwood 02:07 Tools
Peter Gunn 01:54 Tools
Welcome Home 03:03 Tools
Lonesome Midtown Blues 02:31 Tools
Would You Like to Play the Guitar? 02:37 Tools
You Haunt Me 02:45 Tools
Drowning 03:11 Tools
Arkansas Traveler 02:45 Tools
Into the Garden 02:40 Tools
Come Back Baby 03:27 Tools
Mountain Air 02:58 Tools
Hard Times 02:13 Tools
Too Gone 04:04 Tools
Blue Tango 03:28 Tools
Summer's End 02:03 Tools
Maple Leaf Rag 03:05 Tools
Novocaine 02:08 Tools
High Society 02:46 Tools
Joe Fingers 02:51 Tools
No Joke 03:01 Tools
Pig Iron 02:34 Tools
Georgia on My Mind 03:10 Tools
Exercise Blues 02:55 Tools
Too Tight Rag 03:00 Tools
Butch's Blues 03:29 Tools
Stealin' from Chet 03:44 Tools
Freeway Man 02:18 Tools
2nd St. Blues 03:14 Tools
Some Time 03:44 Tools
I Never Cried 03:03 Tools
Tears 02:42 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine 02:53 Tools
With You Again 03:33 Tools
Cold Winter Blues 03:40 Tools
The Road to Kingdom Come 03:33 Tools
Irish Blues 03:28 Tools
Yardbird Suite 03:11 Tools
Summer in Central Park 04:32 Tools
Tico Tico 04:15 Tools
Love and Desire 04:30 Tools
Royal Garden Blues 02:04 Tools
Drivin' Blues 02:26 Tools
Tequila & Green Onions 03:26 Tools
Long Tall Mama 03:09 Tools
Saguaro Slide 02:47 Tools
All Thumbs 02:28 Tools
Big Bill Special 02:48 Tools
The Girl I Left Behind Me 02:11 Tools
The Mooche 04:12 Tools
Hound Dog 02:11 Tools
Rush Hour 02:17 Tools
All Blues 04:20 Tools
Seven Come Eleven 02:58 Tools
Tea for Two 02:09 Tools
Kind Hearted Woman 03:58 Tools
St. Louis Blues 04:21 Tools
(The Other End of) The Mississippi River Blues 04:11 Tools
Blues for Two 03:22 Tools
Louise 03:53 Tools
Touch 'Em All 03:04 Tools
Old Lady 01:27 Tools
Weeping Willow Blues 02:58 Tools
Whole Lotta You 03:40 Tools
Starlight 02:55 Tools
Tico-Tico 03:14 Tools
It Could Be Worse 03:22 Tools
Baby, Can't Get Over You 04:13 Tools
The Star Spangled Banner 01:42 Tools
December Waltz 03:27 Tools
Freewayman 02:18 Tools
This Is the Beginning 04:36 Tools
Step It Up and Go 03:15 Tools
I Don't Worry 'Bout the Blues 04:24 Tools
Nothin' 02:44 Tools
Stumblin' Through 03:58 Tools
Risin' River 04:20 Tools
Nordeast Rag 03:28 Tools
Caroline 02:43 Tools
Guy's Shoes 00:42 Tools
My True Love 02:28 Tools
Michigan Water 04:29 Tools
I Blew It 03:58 Tools
Long Time No See 02:13 Tools
Waitin' For You 02:41 Tools
Matter of Time 03:20 Tools
Cypress Grove Blues 04:02 Tools
All Shook Up 04:02 Tools
The Sway 03:50 Tools
Jazz Name 02:56 Tools
Stompin' at the Savoy 03:31 Tools
All My Life 03:35 Tools
Boogie Woogie Dance 02:49 Tools
Do You Love Me? 03:31 Tools
Give a Dog a Bone 03:00 Tools
The Hard Way 03:56 Tools
My Attorney Bernie 03:05 Tools
Buddy the Blues 03:33 Tools
This Is The Begining 04:24 Tools
Hot Head 04:30 Tools
High School 03:58 Tools
The Glory of Love 02:52 Tools
Michigan Rag 03:33 Tools
I Don't Know That Guy 03:53 Tools
La Vie en Rose 04:23 Tools
Never Enough 03:49 Tools
Goin' Home / Oh Suzanna 04:01 Tools
Hard Times (Come Again No More) 04:01 Tools
Wise Man Blues 04:01 Tools
Blue Yonder 00:00 Tools
Life After Love 00:00 Tools
Maybellene 00:00 Tools
Boogie-Woogie Dance 04:01 Tools
Blind Lemon 03:21 Tools
Train I Ride 03:21 Tools
Weary Blues 00:00 Tools
Bad Bad Whiskey 03:32 Tools
Tell Me Baby 03:32 Tools
Land Of Make Believe 03:32 Tools
Rubs Me the Right Way 03:32 Tools
Touch Em All 02:58 Tools
Make Up Your Mind 03:21 Tools
Road To Kingdom Come 03:16 Tools
Ave Maria 03:32 Tools
Blues Is a Woman 03:32 Tools
One Kind Favor 02:22 Tools
Strawberry Fields Forever 02:03 Tools
Frisco Town 02:22 Tools
Love You Like I Do 00:00 Tools
Border Pine 02:22 Tools
Two Step Candyman 02:22 Tools
Gee Whiz 03:01 Tools
Let's Get Together 03:32 Tools
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Waiting For A Plane 03:32 Tools
Memphis In June 03:32 Tools
Sugarfoot Rag 03:32 Tools
K.C. Moan 03:32 Tools
Avalon 03:32 Tools
(Other End of)The Mississippi 03:32 Tools
Sushi-Yucki 03:32 Tools
Maple Leaf Rug 03:32 Tools
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Star Spangled Banner 00:00 Tools
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Pat Donohue (born April 28, 1953) is an American fingerstyle guitarist born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up in St. Paul but moved to Denver, Colorado in 1971 to study at Regis College (now Regis University). After two years at Regis, he transferred to Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While carrying a full academic load at Marquette, Pat maintained a rigorous musical regimen, often practicing up to six hours daily. His performances during that time (mainly as part of Marquette’s “Traditional Music Society” as well as venturing out into the Milwaukee bar scene) often consisted of three or four forty-five minute sets, featuring an eclectic offering of folk, blues, and jazz material, all featuring his dazzling guitar technique and warm vocal stylings. After his graduation in 1975, he returned to Denver where he started establishing his musical reputation. Donohue was particularly influenced early in his career by Delta blues guitarists like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. He also listened extensively to folk-oriented singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman and John Prine. Donohue established a solid reputation in and around Colorado as a 'guitarist's guitarist' and in 1982 was runner-up in the National Fingerpicking Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. The following year he won the Championship. This award led to wider recognition of his skills and he started accepting engagements throughout the United States. He married in 1983 and with his wife Susan, returned to St. Paul where he continues to live. In 1985, Donohue's first album, Manhattan to Memphis, was released on Red House Records. He released one more album on Red House before setting up his own label, Bluesky Records. In the early nineties, Donohue was asked to join the house band on Garrison Keillor's radio program A Prairie Home Companion. He has played on the show ever since which has given him a chance to accompany some of the world's premiere folk- and roots artists. He and his colleagues in the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band are on-screen throughout much of Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion based on the radio show. Donohue wrote or co-wrote several of the songs on the soundtrack. Guitar legend Chet Atkins once said, "Pat Donohue is one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today." Donohue wrote a song in praise of Atkins' skill and virtuosity called "Stealin' from Chet". He has recorded a studio version on his Backroads CD and a live version on Radio Blues, a collection of his favorite performances from A Prairie Home Companion. Chet Atkins joins him on each version. In the liner notes to the live version, Donohue wrote, "What can I say? The most exciting three minutes of my life. We miss you Chet." (Atkins had died a short time before the album was released). Although Donohue hasn't concentrated much energy on getting other artists to record his music, his songs have been covered by Kenny Rogers, Suzy Bogguss, Chet Atkins, and others. Pat Donohue continues to divide his time between his regular performances on A Prairie Home Companion, live concerts, and teaching workshops. He releases a new album every two years or so. His canon is somewhat eclectic: some of the recordings feature his singer/songwriter side; he has also released two instrumental albums. Donohue is also a creative song parodist and the parodies are often performed on A Prairie Home Companion. He hesitates to release them because he's afraid that the public might be distracted from what he sees as his primary calling: fingerpicking guitarist. Discography * Bluesky Records o Life Stories o Two Hand Band o Big Blind Bluesy o Backroads o American Guitar (2000) o Profile * AMR o Two of a Kind (with Mike Dowling) o Pink Guitar (Grammy-Award-winning compilation of Henry Mancini songs arranged for acoustic guitar) * Prairie Home Companion recordings o Radio Blues (live performances from the radio program) Videos * Rags to Rock (instructional video) * Jazz Classics Fingerstyle, volumes 1 and 2 * Pat Donohue at the Freight and Salvage Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.