![]() ![]() “I don’t doubt you/with your heart on the line,” Patty answers, “Just leave it up to the universe/I know we’ll get there in time.”īeginning with a gentle acoustic riff that Dwight came up with on their very first day in the studio, “A death and reborn, what was is now gone/the version of you, I knew, has grown butterfly wings and flown,” Kelly sings in the album’s opening track “Screaming Hallelujah,” a call-and-response arrangement that highlights the easy bond between the two singers. It arrives at exactly the right moment, as a balm for troubled times. The record vibrates with intensity, anchored by Kelly and Patty’s striking vocals and Kelly’s crisp guitar style. “We were an ocean apart after the pandemic hit,” Kelly says, “and the record sat on a shelf for nearly two years.”ĭespite the unexpected gestation period, Far From Saints, produced by the band and mixed by Al Clay, has lost none of its impact. Shortly after finishing the LP in the fall of 2019, the pandemic struck, delaying the album indefinitely. “Kelly and I were just two artists in similar spots, in that we were both ready to try something new.”īut while Far From Saints was ready to make its debut, the universe had other plans. “I think that was helpful because I wasn’t nervous, like, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to write with Kelly motherfucking Jones,’ you know? It wasn’t like that,” she says. Patty underscores just how casually Far From Saints came into existence - when she and Kelly first met, she didn’t know who he was. We booked two recording sessions, one at the end of each leg of the tour, and we did the whole album in nine days.” “One night, Patty and Dwight walked off stage and I said, ‘We’ve got to do something together.’ The next day we sang something in a dressing room and it just formed from there. “There was never a project planned,” Kelly says. The band knew they had discovered something magical and, most of all, effortless. In backstage hallways, dressing rooms, and hotels, Kelly, Patty and Dwight went on to trade musical touchstones, talk influences, and harmonize together. “So we tested it out doing a cover of ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,’ which was fucking great. “I’d watch them from the side of the stage and I knew that our voices would work very well together,” Kelly says. They all knew each other after touring together in 2013, but this time the musical magnetism was too strong not to explore. It all started with a Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks cover.įor his 2019 solo tour, Kelly Jones - leader of the legendary Welsh band Stereophonics - enlisted Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker’s Austin group The Wind and the Wave to open. Far From Saints is honest, real, and brimming with integrity. It’s a record that, much like the band itself, was created over an unadulterated love of music and collaboration. ![]() studio - and Far From Saints were born.Īn entirely new band with a cross-genre sound that will appeal to fans of country, rock, folk, soul, and Americana, Far From Saints debut with an indelible album of 10 expertly crafted songs that touch on themes of love, perseverance, self-doubt, and self-healing. Six years later, they proved their theory in a U.K. tour in 2013, they hardly knew each other but sensed an undeniable musical chemistry. When Kelly Jones and Patty Lynn met backstage during a U.S. There are few phenomena more powerful and mysterious than two voices naturally drawn together. ![]()
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