Media response has been great for NUTHIN’ BUT A THANG! (Shakehouse Records), the recently-released CD by renowned blues guitarist/vocalist Glenn Patrik and follow-up to his critically-lauded MR. BLUES, JR. (currently #62 on the REAL BLUES list of Top 100 Blues CDs; MR BLUES JR. sits at #12 on the same chart). In addition to being played on regular rotation on SIRIUS/XM RADIO’S “Bluesville” show, the album has been reviewed by over fifty media outlets throughout the United States and Europe since its release.  

Patrik’s song “The Bossman” is currently the fifth most popular downloaded song, according to Glenn’s hometown paper, the LAS VEGAS WEEKLY. Glenn was voted “2010 Male Artist of the Year” by the listeners of respected web publication ROCKWIRED and is nominated in the “Best Blues, Roots or Americana Artist” category for the 20th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards in November. 

"Glenn Patrik does his thang with a flair and style that's laid back and relaxed, yet in control. Well worth several listens!, " says Dave Johnson, host of nationally-syndicated BLUES DELUXE radio program, heard weekly on over 100 stations throughout the U.S. with a two-million-plus audience listenership.  “A classic American rhythm section with ‘true swing’. Real music lives!,” exclaims Europe’s #1 music magazine, BLUES MATTERS.             

Over 40 years after performing his very first show at age eight for a crowd of 3,000 people in his hometown of Kansas City, Kansas - singer, songwriter and guitarist Glenn Patrik brings a lifetime of struggle and soul, joy and pain and hard-driving blues playing to his craft.  

Patrik has become an international ambassador, so to speak, for the music that has defined his life. Without the benefit of formal radio promotion, Patrik’s music has hit the airwaves everywhere from Denmark, Poland and Belgium to Thailand and Brazil. “In the neighborhood I grew up in,” Patrik recalls, “everyone played soul and blues; I was exposed, starting at about age six, to live shows and recordings by Freddy King, Albert Collins as well as Archie Bell & The Drells (and) Count Basie. I can feel Mozart right along with Nat Cole, Django Rheinhardt along with some George Clinton. Then, throw in some Hound Dog Taylor, Aaron Neville, The Carter Family with Too Live Crew and Hendrix. Add the influence of K.C. blues guitar legend Leon Estelle and you get a feel of where I come from,” Patrik concludes. 

 Since launching his blues odyssey well before the age of 21, hitchhiking and hopping trains from Kansas City, Kansas’ massive railroad switching yard to all points north, south, east and west, in search of musicians that he had only heard of, Patrik says, “I’ve spent the last thirty- something years trying’ to show up early, look sharp, and deliver the guitar/vocal sound that the boss was looking’ for.”   

Now Glenn Patrik is the boss, making sounds that carry on the legacy of the greats he learned from.