The Keyboard Chronicles

The Keyboard Chronicles


Patrick Warren, Bonnie Raitt / Tom Waits / Bob Dylan / Aimee Mann

April 22, 2025

Patrick Warren is someone whose music you will definitely have heard at some stage, given his prolific film and TV composition career. Then there’s his production, touring and session work with a who’s who of artists….


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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):  


Full list of Patrick’s credits (warning: it’s a long read)


Working with Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs


Working from the home studio versus face-to-face collaboration


Working with Bruce Springsteen / Brendan O’Brien 


Patrick on keys with Springsteen – American Beauty 


Patrick’s musical upbringing


Working with Michael Penn


Patrick’s first acting appearance on Michael Penn’s No Myth (with Chamberlin)


A discussion on the Chamberlin


Working on Fiona Appel’s first record – Tidal


Aimee Mann – Bachelor, No. 2


‘Auditioning’ for Tom Waits


Tom Waits – Glitter and Doom tour 2008


Patrick’s work on Dig in Deep by Bonnie Raitt


The long-term working relationship with Joe Henry


Playing keys on Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart 


Patrick’s string arrangement on Lana Del Ray’s song Honeymoon


Patrick performing with Bob Dylan at the White House


Patrick’s arranging and composing career, starting with Heroes by The Wallflowers


Working on True Detective while touring with Diana Krall


Patrick with Diana Krall at Montreaux 2013


What has and hasn’t changed about arranging, composing and orchestration


Working with Common on the soundtrack to Alice (a very in-depth discussion also to be found here)


Glory – Common and John Legend (arrangement by Patrick Warren)


The relationship with a film’s Director during composition


A ‘normal’ day when composing for serial TV


Patrick’s favourite keyboards and virtual instruments (including LA Scoring Strings and Spitfire Audio)


Patrick’s hilarious (time signature based) train wreck with Tom Waits


Faces – Stay With Me


Desert Island Discs: Hunky Dory – David Bowie, Nancy & Lee – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Ode to Freedom / Bernstein in Berlin – Leonard Bernstein, Frank’s Wild Years – Tom Waits, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan.


Gaby Moreno – Til Waking Light (arranged by Patrick Warren)


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