Patrick's earliest musical leanings developed into areas more demanding than the current "pop" music of the day. He became interested in authentic American blues and listened in admiration to records by such black and British performers as Muddy Waters, Freddy King, Louis Myers, Howling Wolf, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and more crucially Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman from Mississippi who was said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for a musical virtuosity that inspired awe-struck envy in his peers...

 What made Patrick so unique was that rather than simply replicate the exotic sounds he had heard on blues discs, he incorporated the emotion of the original performances into his own playing, expanding the vocabulary of blues guitar throught his famous solos.