She plays guitar and is most comfortable in a t-shirt and jeans. She loves the music of Loretta Lynn and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Sarah Patrick doesn’t just act country … she is country. And now, recording artist Sarah Patrick releases her first single this week on Nashville America Records.
“The Woman I Am,” written by country music living legend, David Frizzell, hits radio airwaves this week. The song is the title cut from Patrick’s forthcoming debut album, produced by Frizzell.
For decades, Nashville America Records has been the label home for Frizzell’s individual projects as well as the renowned Frizzell & Friends collaborations produced by the country music icon. Frizzell & Friends collaborations have included Merle Haggard, Crystal Gayle, Johnny Lee, Gene Watson, T. Graham Brown, Lacy J. Dalton, Jimmy Fortune (Statler Brothers), John Cowan (New Grass Revival), and many more top names.
After being invited by a friend to hear Sarah Patrick perform, Frizzell soon signed the young singer/songwriter to the label. Reminiscent of a young Loretta Lynn, Sarah writes songs about life’s joys and challenges: love, motherhood, romance, heartbreak and disappointment.
“Sarah reminded me of Loretta from the start,” Frizzell says. “She has that same honesty and determination mixed with vulnerability.”
With some of Nashville’s top session players, and Frizzell in the producer’s chair, Sarah began working on her debut NAR album in late 2017. The project includes timeless covers; three of Sarah’s own original songs; and the title cut, penned by her producer.
“I just feel so grateful and blessed,” Sarah says. “This has been the most amazing experience and I’m just so eager to share this music and see where the journey takes me.”
Raised in a tightknit family with loving parents and one older brother, Sarah discovered the music of artists like Loretta Lynn, Miranda Lambert, Ashton Shepherd, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, and Tammy Wynette as a young girl. These women’s songs became the soundtrack of her life; the place to which Sarah would turn in times of joy, celebration, through new love and breakups, finding jobs and leaving jobs, becoming a mother and more. Eventually, she began to write songs of her own, and ultimately began performing at local venues, sharing both covers and original songs.
Sarah began sharing videos online, and was soon invited to perform at a club near her home. Although she’d never been onstage, Sarah felt right at home. Over time, she began to add her original songs to the list of classic covers in her sets.
“I love the feeling I have when on stage,” she says, “especially when people are dancing, smiling, or singing along.”
When she’s not writing, performing, or searching for a quiet corner of the house to record a song to share on social media, Sarah loves to fish, play basketball, read (autobiographies are her favorite), and more than anything, simply hang out and play with her two beautiful daughters.
“The Woman I Am” is available to country radio this week.
