 Since Pat Green started building a life in songs, framed with
a husky voice that suggests long nights, worn memories and deep passions, and a
battered acoustic guitar that was perhaps his most constant companion, the
search for that truth has made him the kind of artist that just about all of
Texas could see their own truths in. Along the way, he's garnered three Grammy
nominations; had a Top 5 Billboard Country Single with "Wave On Wave"; sold out
the Houston Astrodome twice; and done the kind of business in his home state
superstars yearn for; and has had enough exportability to be certified Gold with
Wave On Wave , his second album for New York's Republic/Universal Records.
But beyond the milestones and landmarks, for Pat Green, it's a journey in song.
It's a way of excavating the layers and plains of his own heart - and hopefully
deepening his understanding of the rest of us along the way.
"I try to write what's next," says the aw shucks everyman poet. "I'll never stop
where the evolution is taking me... It's a waste of time to try to write what
isn't there. I think a lot of people can relate to how hard it is to be in love
with someone and to maintain being in love. Life is an interesting dilemna: I
step off the curb and get caught up in my own humanity. That's where the songs
come from."
Certainly his evolution as a writer is present on Lucky Ones , his second
project with noted roots producer Don Gehman who is known for his diverse
musicality that ranges from John Mellencamp to Tracy Chapman's "Give Me A
Reason," Bruce Hornsby & the Range to Treat Her Right. With one eye on the
horizon and the other cast upon the depths of his own being, Pat Green sought to
meet the challenge of upping the ante in terms of connection, yet maintaining
the one-on-one truth that's served his music.
" Wave On Wave was a very private record, a very inward moment - and this record
is very much an opening out. I believe that people are gonna sing the choruses,
but they'll figure out what the song's about in the verses, so you wanna give
them something to hang on to."
Pat Green's songs are populated with fascinating people. Beyond his own internal
wrestling with the classic issues of American literature - love, faith,
fidelity, redemption, good times - there's the fading party girl trying to get
on with life who's still clinging to the past that's the whirling "Baby Doll,"
the swaggering if wounded modern day caballero who knows the answer to a
heartache lies "Between Texas and Mexico" and the two broken and battered hearts
who can't let go of their pride long enough to reach out to each other in "Don't
Break My Heart Again," a populist plea for deeper connection that opens with the
line "She was standing there, at the edge of out of control/ Hair wild, her eyes
filled with the pain..."
Some Current Highlights of Pat Green include: PAT GREEN’S “FEELS JUST LIKE IT
SHOULD” MARKS HIGHEST BILLBOARD DEBUT OF 2006 .Pat Green will tour with the Dave
Matthews Band Summer 2006.RCA Label Group signed Pat Green in March of 2006 Pat
Green will do a great show for your next corporate or private event.
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