Patrick Spicer Cassidy

Patrick Spicer Cassidy is an Alternative, Blues, and Rock artist whose musical journey began almost as early as he can remember. Born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, raised in the Appalachian music culture of Asheville, North Carolina, and with family roots extending to New Zealand, Cassidy grew up surrounded by music. What began with banging on pots and pans and playing inexpensive guitars developed into formal training in drums, voice, guitar, piano, music theory, pedagogy, and music history.

Music was also part of Cassidy’s family long before he began his own career. His father, guitarist Matthew Spicer, performed with blues legend John Lee Hooker in live settings, while his aunt, Sarah Spicer, featured John Lee on her song “Little Bit of Rain.” In 1993, John Lee encountered Patrick as a baby at the San Francisco airport and, upon seeing him, declared, “Is that yo baby? I’ll be that baby’s Godfather.”

By age 14, Cassidy was playing lead guitar with Western North Carolina blues band Skinny Legs and All. He toured professionally with the group for three years, including an appearance at the Youth Blues Showcase at B.B. King’s Blues Club in Memphis. His career continued with professional guitar work in Justin Kane and Stonegate Road, opening for Granger Smith in Omaha and performing as a recognized solo guitarist at the Greeley Jazz Festival.

Behind that musical development was a deeply personal story. Cassidy lost his father due to mental health struggles when he was four years old. At 18, he received his father’s Fender Stratocaster—a connection to Matthew that became an important part of his coming-of-age story and would ultimately help inspire Cassidy’s debut album, Oxygen.

Cassidy went on to receive a 2017 NAMM Innovation Award and graduate with honors with a B.A. in Music Business. He later signed with Spectra Music Group and released Oxygen, an Alternative, Blues, and Rock record built around expressive guitar work, introspective songwriting, and the search for hope through difficult experiences. Variety Entertainment News praised the album’s guitar work as “absolutely fabulous” and named Cassidy “an artist to watch for.”

Today, Cassidy is working on his follow-up project, Spectrum, while continuing to release new music and performance content and performing with his Blues, Rock, and Country band, Triple Threat. Through both his recordings and live performances, Cassidy continues to build on a musical story spanning generations—transforming loss, experience, and a lifelong relationship with music into songs meant to leave something lasting with the listener.