About

While playing at any given venue, Patrick Ballantyne often hears someone in the audience shout out: “That is the best cover of ‘All Hell for a Basement’ I have ever heard!” But, it wasn’t a cover/ He co-wrote it … just as he’d done with other Big Sugar songs: ‘If I Had My Way’, ‘Girl Watcher’, and ‘I Want You Now’. Patrick has also collaborated on the radio hit ‘Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me’ by the Trews. More recently, he’s joined creative forces with CMT favorite and ‘East Coast Music Award’ winner, Tim Chaisson.

A songwriter of breathtaking range, Ballantyne is one of those rare musical talents who is perfectly happy working behind the scenes to create songs that capture the hearts and imagination of music lovers, and hearing them interpreted or re-interpreted through the voices of others. ~ Lithium Magazine