Pat Green
	If there is a college or University in your town, chances are that Pat Green has played where you live. In fact if you live anywhere other than Texas, Pat may be the most famous country singer you've never heard of.  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..." "I was thinking about Juliette Lewis when I wrote that line," he admits shyly. "And it went through so many different incarnations this song...but I just knew there was something with that chorus! Originally, I was watching 'Badlands' when we started the first two verses... the part where he says, 'Do you remember that tree that was down there?' and she says, 'Yeah, well, the rain came and washed the roots away...' "That's the thing... and it's in the bridge: Love is so hard to find. You could be sitting right next to love and not know it or be willing to let it be felt. Man, it's simple - yet, it just knocks you down with the truth of it." That simplicity can be deceptive. Because if the mystical, larger realities of intimate human dynamics and the somewhat shifting topography of the human heart fascinate Green, he is as much about the rolling good time where the mind isn't as engaged as the soul. "Well, there's a huge difference between a deep song and on that's got a great big sing along chorus," the maker of "handmade records" concedes. "Deep songs are way more fun to write because you have to think about 'em, but they're not as much fun to perform or for the audience... and that IS part of it, you know! "I'm a simple guy who understands what's going on, but doesn't have to prove it. I don't know why, but I just go with whatever. I'm completely fine to be whatever this is in any given moment - including a total dork. You know, you don't have to be the guy in the magazine... that's just a picture. It's two-dimensional - and real life has a lot more dimensions than that.
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