Patrick Kinsley is a pretty lousy guitar player and sings just well enough to carry a tune. Nevertheless, he's somehow able to write with a voice that makes the characters in his songs come alive - makes them drink, screw, curse and spit. Profusely.

“They're usually of the Tom T. Hall variety- light on choruses, heavy on image. The whole story-song thing,” he says.

Kinsley lives in Nashville, TN ... more