Patrick Sweany at the Raccoon Motel -- September 25.
Friday, September 25, 7 p.m.
Raccoon Motel, 315 East Second Street, Davenport IA
Lauded by Glide magazine as “effortlessly cool” and “a tried and true blues rocker hell-bent on getting the job done,” Patrick Sweany serves as the September 25 headliner at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the musician's 2025 album Baby, It's Late described on the artist's Web site as "a raw, more direct collection of songs that tap directly into the pain, tension, and catharsis of the past seven years."
Born in 1974 in Massillon, Ohio, Sweany began his professional career in the late 1990s, becoming a fixture at regional blues festivals before releasing his album debut I Wanna Tell You on Ayao Records. Assembling a band that featured Dan Auerbach – the guitarist who would later gain fame as the leader of The Black Keys – the artist continued to work the blues circuit, releasing henryfordbedroom for Ayao in 2003 and switching to Nine Mile for the release of 2006's C'mere C'mere. The following year, Sweany released another full-length CD, Every Hour Is A Dollar Gone, in his newly fashioned Akron Analog studios, and toured throughout the United States in support of its release, both headlining and supporting artists such as Sonny Landreth, The Black Keys, Los Straightjackets, The Gourds, and Paul Thorn.
By the time Sweany released That Old Southern Drag in 2011, the singer/songwriter's career started to gain momentum due to his successful appearances on streaming services. Close to the Floor consequently appeared in 2013 and Daytime Turned to Nighttime arrived in 2015, and with the release of Ancient Noise, Sweany earned some of the most laudatory reviews of his career. The Alternate Root raved, “His songs grow from a blues point-of-contact morphing his own brand with touches of country, soul, and the vintage sounds of raw rock 'n' roll.” Rocking Magpie, meanwhile, said that the album arrived “just when we needed some rough and ready, sweaty and cinematic southern blues with a splash of rock'-n'-roll-flavoured bourbon,” adding that Sweany “delivers all of those things with gentlemanly panache.”
With Baby, It's Late the singer/songwriter's first new recording in seven years, its songs, as described at PatrickSweaney.com, "capture elements of Sweany’s previous recordings: the raw Blues-Rock opener 'My Time Ain’t Long' could be an outtake from 2008’s Every Hour Is A Dollar Gone, while the subtle ballads 'Christmas Parade' and 'See Through' are reminiscent of 2015’s ruminative Daytime Turned To Nighttime. Elsewhere, however, Sweany embraces some new influences such as the hooky rock anthem 'Golden Fields' and the '70s organ funk groove of 'Trouble With Love.'"
Patrick Sweany headline his Davenport engagement on September 25 (7 p.m. doors) with an additional set by Spencer Thomas, admission to the concert is $19.84, and more information and tickets are available by visiting TheRaccoonMotel.com.
