Pat Green

Aside from Willie Nelson and Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green is one of the artists that got me into Texas Music and listening to true original music thus making me the music snob that I am today. I remember seeing him at shows here in San Antonio with maybe 50 people there. As Pat's popularity has grown I have remained a fan and a supporter of his. As people over the years have called him a sell out when he signed with a major record label and took his music national. All I am going to say about this is BULL SHIT! Pat kicked down the door making it easier for bands in the Texas Music scene like Cross Candian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, Kevin Fowler, and Randy Rogers to get major labels.
That brings me to Saturday night when I went to see Pat Green at Whitewater Ampitheater in New Braunfels. While I had not seen Pat in concert in a few years so I was looking forward to seeing if any changes had been made since the last time I saw him. The anwser is no Pat still puts on a bad ass show. He mixed in his newer stuff with old classics like "Me and Billy The Kid", "Southbound 35" and "Hey We Go". On "Texas On My Mind" he had Django Walker and Cory Morrow sing with him. His band has expanded since the old days but still includes Brendon Anthony, Brett Danaher Michael Tarabay, and Justin Pollard (while he didn't play this show because he just had a baby) that have played with Pat for as long as I can remember. Not the signs of someone that has sold out!