Background
Sansone was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
Sansone was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
Upon entering college at The University of Southern Mississippi, Sansone found two musical kindred souls in Will Martin and Eddie Bo McRaney and started Beagle Voyage, a power trio influenced by Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, The Who, and Rush. Sansone played guitar for Beagle Voyage and then Stretch Armstrong, a rock band influenced by Black Sabbath and the Butthole Surfers. Soon after, Sansone formed the band Birdy, which included fellow Mississippians Trey Batson, Ike Marr and Glen Graham, who went on to play drums for Blind Melon.
In 2000 he joined Rogers Stevens (formerly of Blind Melon) to play the bass in the band Extra Virgin.
The band recorded four full-length albums: The Green Hour in 2000, Circles in 2003, the self-titled in 2006, and Once Around in 2010. Sansone lived in both Nashville and New York, working as a producer and studio musician.
He contributed to albums by Joseph Arthur, Andrew Bird, Josh Rouse, Mavis Staples, Swan Dive, Jenifer Jackson, Ryan Adams, The Clientele, and others In 2004 Sansone joined before a tour in support of their album A Ghost Is Born, following the departure of multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach.
On tour Sansone plays guitar, keyboard, maracas, and several other instruments, as well as singing backup vocals.
He was also involved in the writing and recording of "s 2007 release Sky Blue Sky, 2009"s, and The Whole Love in 2011. Pat Sansone received a co-production cr for his work on The Whole Love. He also received cr for arranging strings for the track "Black Moon".
In 2009 Sansone made a guest appearance on Dawes"s album North Hills.
In 2010 he appeared on the albums Familial by Radiohead drummer Philosophy Selway, Compass by Jamie Lidell, and You Are Not Alone by Mavis Staples. In 2010 Patrick Sansone released a book of photography called 100 Polaroids.
The book is a collection of polaroid photographs taken with an SX70 camera. Sansone began photographing with the SX70 in 2006, and shot extensively over the next several years while traveling with and The book is self-published by his own Sansonica Books.
In April 2012, Sansone co-produced an European Parliament, Weird Weather, for the Chicago-based band Future Monarchs with Josh Shapera.