Exclusive First Look at Patrick Dethlefs Video for "While You're Carrying The Weight"

Local troubadour Patrick Dethlefs recently released three new songs, two of which are included on a limited edition 7” record titled "While You're Carrying The Weight." Each record comes with a code to digitally download all three tracks. Physical copies can be purchased at Twist & Shout in Denver or by visiting Dethlefs' Bandcamp site here: http://bit.ly/160dBvk. The tracks are also available digitally now via iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.

Patrick Dethlefs (pronounced “DET-lefs”) writes songs like a humble Townes Van Zandt, full of haunting melodies and innocent lyricism. Colorado-based Dethlefs’ latest full-length release, 2012’s "Fall and Rise," offers folk Americana with effortless sincerity at a time when many acts blatantly strive to revive the stripped-down feel of a musical history long past.
 
Now in his early twenties, Dethlefs won the 2009 Best Teen Songwriter Award at Swallow Hill Music, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the U.S. dedicated to developing folk and acoustic music. He also received Best Song and Best Performance Awards the same year. 
 
The innate nostalgia embedded in Dethlefs‘ music may have taken root when he first began playing. Inspired by his father, who he lost when he was young, Dethlefs first picked up a guitar at age twelve. Also a musician, Dethlefs’ father left his musical legacy to his son, who is not only humble, but humbling.
 
“Fall and Rise” followed on the impressive critical reception of 2010’s full-length “Stays the Same” and 2011’s split EP with The Eye and the Arrow. Dethlefs has shared the stage with such notables as Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band), Abigail Washburn, Ben Sollee, Mountain Man and Horse Feathers, among others. He has also performed and recorded with members of Paper Bird. 
 
“Dethlefs finds poetry in the memories and that slight pain in the laugh lines.” - Daytrotter

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