Reminisces on the trauma of a small town first love in latest single
Monument Records recording artist and celebrated songwriter Pillbox Patti has released her latest single “Low Life” available now. While most people reflect on their first loves with rose-colored lenses, this unabashed truth teller removes the inflated fantasy and recounts the unsophisticated, but none the less impactful, romance that still gets her “high on the low life.”
“My small town, first real-big young love story isn’t a pretty one. It wasn’t tailgates and creek beds…it wasn’t county fairs or muscadine wine on a Friday night…it wasn’t innocent,” Patti shares. “It was doing blow off of a Pastor Troy CD case in a random P.O.S. car, driving around all night lookin’ for pills, drinkin’ bad whiskey and Sprite out of a Speedway cup on a Tuesday – low life romantic. He didn’t carve a heart with our initials in an oak tree, he got a really shitty tat of my name in jail. He never bought me a single piece of jewelry that he didn’t steal back from me and sell. He wasn’t a thief and a liar and a fuck-up because he was a bad person, he didn’t break my heart because he didn’t love me…he was just an addict. Wherever he is, he’s still my favorite ex.”
“Low Life” is the latest release from Pillbox Patti since her label debut album, Florida, via Monument Records. The album, produced by Chisolm, is an forthright, first-hand recount of growing up in her home state of Florida – often alone, poor and looking for more to do than just eat, pray or do drugs in her small town.
No one puts Patti in a corner. After years of writing for other artists, including Ashley McBryde’s “One Night Standards,” award-winning songwriter Nicolette Hayford finally gets to be the artist she’s wanted to be for years. The ten-year town put Nicolette into a box as only one idea. So, she ventured off with her tribe of writers and entered metamorphoses, emerging as Pillbox Patti with a project and tone that captures everything she wants to convey: a fresh, authentic take on growing up in her country. It’s crystallized through the lens of a Florida native delivering her youth and adulthood in an honest, spirited, not always pretty, package in her debut album Florida.
Last year, Patti took to the road with Jelly Roll and Ashley McBryde. As a writer and featured artist on the Grammy-nominated Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, she’s spreading her version of country music throughout the format. In 2023 she will be out with Koe Wetzel.
