Patricia Vonne's currently recording  her 10th album for a 2026 release. The title track " My Heart's Got a Mind of it's Own" is a co-write with her long time heroes Johnny Reno &  legendary Chris Isaak! It's an infectious rocker that will set the tone featuring 10 original bilingual songs.

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DISCOGRAPHY:
Patricia Vonne released her first, self-titled album on her own Bandolera Records label in 2003. Vonne set the template with rockabilly-tinged cowpunk laced with cinematic melodies, Tex-Mex bilingual vocals, a no-nonsense Latina sensibility with, nonetheless, an accessible softer, romantic side. Texas Monthly magazine raved, “Vonne’s confident, tuff gal vocals, sharp musicianship and smart lyricism don’t just promise the total package, they deliver the goods from the get-go.”
 
​Her second album, "Guitars and Castanets", followed in 2005 featuring "Traeme Paz" from the film "Once Upon a Time in Mexico". Also featuring a tip of the hat to three of her mentors: West Texas rocker Joe Ely (“Joe’s Gone Ridin’”), Alejandro Escovedo (the title track "Guitars & Castanets", & Johnny Reno (“Sax Maniac”), whose rip-roaring live show originally set Vonne on her musical path.

​"Firebird", released in 2007, expanded on Vonne’s formula and included a rare, deeply personal statement. “Missing Women/Mujeres Desaparecidas” was dedicated to the hundreds of women gone missing over the years in and near Ciudad Juarez. “A bilingual tour de force” Austin American Statesman
 
​Of 2010’s "Worth It", the Austin Chronicle wrote, “Whatever you’re expecting from this new Patricia Vonne disc, the title says it all. The statuesque local Latina here rocks a tough stride in her career at a time when she knows her territory better than ever.
Vonne continues her trailblazing ride along the borderland where Castillian & Mexican infusions of flamenco and  fiery gypsy guitar meets all- American rock 'n' roll."

 

​Vonne’s 5th album released in 2013, "Rattle My Cage", was hailed by Austin American Statesman “It represents everything good about Austin music”. Featuring co-writes with Johnny Reno (Rattle My Cage), fellow San Antonio rocker Rosie Flores (This Cat's in the Doghouse), Alejandro Escovedo (Ravage Your Heart), Doyle Bramhall ( Dark Mile) and Robert Rodriguez (Mexicali de Chispa) made the album one of Vonne’s most diverse and enjoyable.
 
​Vonne’s 6th album “Viva Bandolera, made Top 8 in Huffington Post. Sung entirely in Spanish, and collecting 17 tracks from her previous recordings, it is a summation of sorts of the distance Vonne has traveled on her singular path.

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7th album TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN:

​Hailed as a “Renaissance woman of Austin, Texas” by the New York Times, Patricia Vonne has claimed many titles in her illustrious career: singer, songwriter, actress, activist and award winning filmmaker. The three time Austin Music Award winner is back with her seventh album “Top of the Mountain”.

The album features co-writes with Joe King Carrasco, Alejandro Escovedo, Willie Nile, Steven Medina Hufsteter of the Cruzados & Robert LaRoche (The SIghs).

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Patricia Vonne's award winning 8th album, My Favorite Holiday, was released in 2021. It features 10 original songs with the help of an all-star cast including Rubén Blades, Alex Ruiz, Rosie Flores, Stephen Ferrone on drums (Tom Petty), Carmine Rojas on bass (David Bowie),Tommy Price on drums (Billy Idol), Scott Plunkett on piano(Chris Isaak) Rowland Salley on bass(Chris Isaak),Johnny Reno & more.The album is produced by Rick Del Castillo. "Santa's On a Rampage" was chosen as the "Coolest Song in the World" on Little Steven's Underground Garage.

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Vonne's 9th album " Live From Austin Texas" features 14 tracks recorded at One 2 One by Zodiac Studios for Austin Music Live which also filmed the performance. The resulting videos are available on Youtube.

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Vonne has toured internationally including the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, World Expo in Japan, John F. Kennedy Center & United Nations Headquarters in NYC. She has shared the stage with Chris Isaak, Los Lobos, Raul Malo & collaborated with Texas musical  heavyweights such as Charlie Sexton, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Rosie Flores, Doyle Bramhall & Flaco Jimenez. Vonne toured as a member of “Tito and  Tarantula” the band featured in the Tarantino/Rodriguez film “From Dusk Till Dawn”.

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Vonne has appeared on the big screen in Spykids, Desperado, Machete Kills, Four Rooms, Sin City and Sin City:A Dame to Kill For in which she reprised her role as Dallas/Zorro Girl; the role which has made her a cult figure among indie and fantasy film fans. Her song  “Traeme Paz” was featured in the film Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

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Vonne continues to advocate for human rights donating proceeds of her song, “Missing Women”, to Amnesty International to help bring attention to the surge in homicides in Ciudad Juarez. She is active in the United Nations’ program Artists United Against Human Trafficking. Additionally, in Austin, she works as an advocate for school music programs through the Texas Music Project.

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Critics Corner:​

"A Tex-Mex spitfire with a rock 'n' roll heart, this San Antonio native plays a border-crossing, bilingual mix of flamenco flamboyance and down-in-the-mud exuberance that's a Lone Star original."

Austin American Statesman

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"Imagine a young Chrissie Hynde fronting the Mavericks with a little help from Calexico."
- WORD

 

Intoxicating blend of Americana and Mexicana with a driving rock 'n'roll heart." London Times

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"This indie goddess, an award winner in every discipline she touches, comes back from another foreign victory with album number seven, a set that finds her at her sexy, sassy brassy best yet." -Midwest Record

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"Vonne’s new effort incorporates all the multi-faceted components that define her unique musical persona: rock, folk, flamenco, bilingual Tex-Mex and Latin strands that, taken together, form a rich and colorful tapestry." - Glide Magazine

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"Vonne has absorbed just about every indigenous musical style Texas has on offer, & can summon any one in the flick of a castanet or guitar pick." Houston Chronicle

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"This is a talent to melt the coldest heart" THE SUN

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 “A 12-track journey, Top of The Mountain perfectly slots together – a jigsaw of femininity and independence that Vonne’s voice solidifies. Distinctively contralto, Vonne is the Tejano embodiment of fierce merited success – taking hold of the Austin music scene with her distinguishing vocals, and dead ass refusal to give it back.” – Track Rambler

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"Powerhouse Tejana Rocker...she’s conjured up a rocking powerhouse recording, easily apparent by the snarly guitar licks and fierce vocals found on tracks like “City is Alive” and “Lil Lobo”... delicious... versatile...Ripe with sultry vocals, jangling guitar riffs and pounding rhythms...Top of the Mountain is a rocking, wind-in-the-hair, open road in a speeding convertible ride of a recording. Enjoy the ride." - World Music Central

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"With a sultry , blood red vocal style and a dramatic songwriting flair, the strikingly exotic Patricia Vonne combines south-of-the-border mariachi sizzle, southwestern mythology, Texas roots-rock and spaghetti western cinematic sweep on this compelling bilingual effort."

 No Depression

 

"Looking like a gypsy Polly Harvey and sounding like Lucinda Williams with Nick Cave's sense of doom" 

Mojo

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"Patricia Vonne's new album 'Viva Bandolera' is beautiful, dramatic, and passionate. It's a very accurate representation of where she is as an artist." Raul Malo

 

"A slithering, seductive tribute to the rough riders and rabble-rousers that roam the badlands between here and Nogales, Vonne's operatic frontera folk is the stuff characters in spaghetti westerns dream of when sleeping with one eye open.  Louis Fowler/Red Dirt Report (Viva Bandolera)

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"She's such a passionate artist and person and all that seeps through the grooves of her new record. I think it's her best yet" (Rattle My Cage)
 Alejandro Escovedo

 

"Patricia Vonne, one of the great treasures of I'm not kiddin' rock till u drop American roots music, lays down some of the most righteous, low down, sexy, glorious, you're not gettin' outta here alive (and who would want to) rock 'n' roll this side of the grave on her new album. "Rattle My Cage" is her best work. Roots rock for those who want it real! 4 Stars out of 4!"
  Willie Nile

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"Imagine Chris Isaak or KD Lang crooning en Español w/ gypsy guitars & castanets" 

San Antonio Current

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"The San Antonio native's confident, tuff gal vocals, sharp musicianship & smart lyricism don't just promise the total package, they deliver the goods from the get-go." Joe Nick Patoski​​

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"Guitars & Castanets" should be heard driving in a red convertible, preferably running from the law or a lover, and undoubtedly on the way to Mexico. "
- JUPITER

 

"Patricia Vonne's latest recording is a bilingual tour-de-force. It melds eclectic with electric and exudes an elegance seldom associated with rock. Vonne is quickly taking her place among Texas' musical treasures."
Austin Chronicle

 

"I was not prepared for the force of this singer's new LP- "Rattle My Cage"- which represents everything good about Austin music." Michael Corcoran Austin American Statesman

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"This Austin Chicana's lilt has a bit of the border desert in it and her down -on- drag tunage, no doubt knocks 'em dead whenever she makes it to Lubbock, and her voice is thankfully as suited for Nashville as for No Depression."
- Chuck Eddy | Village Voice, NYC

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 “We came expecting some raucous Tex-Mex, and left exhilarated by a Rabelaisian cocktail of the most sensual flamenco crisscrossed with a heady brand of rock’n’roll that was pure Texas,”  Irish Times. 

“Nothing could have prepared me for this extraordinary gig. You know how it is when you’ve seen the best gig in your life? Well, for me it’s probably still Led Zeppelin at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. But this one came mighty close…" Maverick

 

"This femme fatale from the Lone Star State has a stage presence that is simply devastating. The kind that lures sailors to their doom and that sends cowboys to the looney bin." El Lokal Zurich Switzerland 

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“One of the best live shows I have seen in the four years I have been covering the Montreux Jazz Festival.” Dominique Schreckling- IM Press 

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"Creativity was always effortless with Patricia. If we’re all born with a negative inner voice that talks us out of achieving everything our heart desires for ourselves, then she figured out how to permanently mute hers. She has always forged her own world for  herself, literally anything that she would ever dream up, and somehow without any of the aggression that you would think one might need to do so. She has such a kind, unassuming, and dreamlike positive spirit that life’s gifts seem to fall into her arms just to share in her life force. She inspires me."

Robert Rodriguez 

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