Pat James

Backroads Sessions is an acoustic performance series built around the emotional origin point of the songs. These aren’t stripped-down versions. They’re where the songs started. “On The Edge” began as a very quiet song written during a difficult period of…

There was a version of “On The Edge” that existed long before the album version. Just me… a dark room… and a song that sounded exactly like what isolation felt like at the time. This song eventually became a little…

I think part of getting older is realizing that some of the places that shaped you…
don’t really exist anymore the way they used to.

The roads are still there.
The buildings are still there.
But something about them feels…

“The world feels a lot bigger now than it used to…

Even if you grew up in a city, I think when you look back, everything just felt closer… simpler somehow.

I grew up in a small town—Aurora, Ontario. My…

There’s something about the backroads…

No noise. No pressure. Just the song the way it was written.

Backroads Sessions is an ongoing acoustic performance series where I bring these songs back to their emotional origin point — stripped down, honest…

“I love driving…

There’s just something about getting in the truck, grabbing a coffee, putting on some music…

It’s like putting on a suit of armour.
Feels like it can take you anywhere you wanna go.

I don’t know if…

 Over the past little while, I’ve been working on something called The Backroads Project.

At first, it started pretty simply.

I wanted to revisit the songs from I’d Like To Leave in the most honest way possible — just me…