![]() ![]() To understand how Jaye Jayle arrived at the way station of Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, you must first trace the trail back to the project’s modest beginnings. On his latest album, Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, Patterson continues to mine his unique strain of the meditative blues while finally breaking the shackles of defeat and passing into a realm residing between Western stoicism and mystic wonder. ![]() Cale, the Tulsa sound originator best known for his song “After Midnight.” Fittingly, Jaye Jayle’s music is best suited for those after midnight hours, when the house lights are dim, the air is thick with humidity and tobacco smoke, perceptions are chemically altered, and every note carries far more gravity. For Patterson, that image translated into being trapped with the blues and mired in depression. First and foremost, it conjured the image of a bluebird locked in a cage. As the Louisville, Kentucky noise rock trio Young Widows scaled back their activity, guitarist/vocalist Evan Patterson created an ever-evolving solo project under the moniker of Jaye Jayle that explored the more abstract realms of the American singer-songwriter process. ![]()
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