Pat Boyack (born June 26, 1967,

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, Utah, United States) is an American

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guitarist and songwriter. Boyack performs modern electric blues and

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. He has released four albums since 1994, for both the Bullseye Blues and Doc Blues record labels.

Biography

Boyack was born in Price, but grew up in

Helper, Utah Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately southeast of Salt Lake City and northwest of the city of Price. The population was 2,201 at the 2010 census. The city is located along the Price River and U.S. Route 6/ ...

. At the age of fifteen he had his first guitar, and listened to a college friend's

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album. Inspired by contemporary Texas blues, Boyack moved to

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, Texas, in 1991, and played in a number of bar bands, including Rocket 88s. In 1993, Boyack formed the Prowlers with John Garza (bass) and Doug Swancy (drums). The Prowlers added Jimmy Morello (singer/harmonica) and secured a recording contract with Bullseye Blues Records (part of

Rounder Records Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by A ...

). Pat Boyack & the Prowlers debut album ''Breakin' In'' (1994), was followed by ''On the Prowl'' (1996). By the time the third album, ''Super Blue & Funky'', was released in 1997, a new backing band had been assembled, which took far less prominent billing. Boyack left the

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for two years to support his wife and first child, then in 2000 Boyack's former label mate,

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, recruited him to her backing band. Following a change in record label, Boyack's fourth album, ''Voices from the Street'' was released in May 2004.

Discography

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Biography

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