Patrick Ballantyne is a Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known for co-writing hit songs for Big Sugar, notably "If I Had My Way".
While Johnson went on to found Big Sugar, Ballantyne became a lawyer, beginning as a prosecutor, then moving to senior positions with KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
He has also worked with Colin MacDonald of The Trews, co-writing that band's hit "Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me",[4] and with Meredith Shaw,[5][6] Tim Chaisson,[7][8][9] and Shaun Verreault of Wide Mouth Mason.
In June 2014, Ballantyne released his second album, Days of Rain,[17] with a show at the Toronto music store Musideum.
The song originally appeared in a different incarnation on Meredith Shaw's EP "Place Called Happy".
[20] The lyric video for "Wrestling with the Devil" was featured by Snob's Music as a 'Friday Find',[21] and 'Music Moment of the Day' by Mute Magazine.