JPR Live Session: The RT’s

For roughly a decade, the band now known as the RT's were known as the Rad Trads. Described as an era of 'bar band' music - the kind of horn-fueled, jazz influenced, high energy party music you might expect to enjoy with friends...and drinks.

But for the RT's, Patrick Sargent (vocals, saxophone, keys); Michael Harlen (bass, vocals); Alden Harris-McCoy (guitar, vocals); Michael Fatum (trumpet, vocals) and Jamie Eblen (drums, vocals), 2021 led to a realization that the group's sound really didn't match that earlier generation was no longer a great match for their maturing creative vision. A discovery that 'Rad Trad' had taken on a political connotation also didn't sit well with the group.

And so...a metamorphosis. To the RT's. They joined us live in the studio to share some cool acoustic arrangements of tunes from their new album, and even incorporated the use of our own Dave Jackson's acoustic guitar!