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NEI THE BATTALII led from page ],; someone of Mai rving as chairman, list of the 400 riel is, Forbes Map: 1 Mays’ personal I billion. recently test :ongressional comt nd off criticism lannel is a monoft ges in unethical k :tices to muscle a >rs. j the meeting, f te were sworn exas Supreme Cn tice John Hill and Nye are Ai . Nye said he ispr A&M Univer progress during egent, but there is rk to be done. rgy conglomerate, a Houston attont m to help stem. ed from page U Jasan al-Tikriti, i j be. If brother once heii intelligence sent hiding in Ar Rami Central Command Gulf. It Aggielife The Battalion Page 3 • Friday, April 11,20031 Pat Green to perform at Hurricane Harry's this weekend By True Brown THE BATTALION The Texas Country Music scene as exploded in the last five years, ind at the forefront of that scene is have my un worn Ail iVaco native Fat Green. Green has ol T-shirt,” said V idden the shock wave of Texas ofTXUCorp.,aDt misic from playing in front of a few- lozen fans in the mid-1990s to play- ng for thousands at sold-out venues as honored thatPr icross the country. lead! After touring nationwide and eceiving Nashville recognition, Green my term is ove in ^ his band w ill be back in College pie can say Ism Nation April 12- 13 for performances served w'ith inte: at ^ irr K;' anc Harry s urage,” White ai „ f° r G c reen and hls k band ' playln f ln ° "College Station is a homecoming for nore than one reason. “(College Station) is where most of ny band came from,” Green said. ‘Almost all the guys in my band went o college (here) — guitar, drums and iolin — all three went to school at i\&M. It's where it all started for me eally.” Green still remembers his first gig vest of Baghdad S ^ ation - at the since-closed an intelligence sen 1 •h™ F ' oor Cantina around 1996. site said MarineM “ l started P la y in 8 U P at Texas Tech ' elt. a spokesman f )U 'f 6 f irst cit >; 0U I tside the . u ^.ubbock area that I got a foot in the loor was College Station, so it's in uuir. it was it mediately whether: llwa y s 8 ood t0 8° back to w bf re you hit. ingly, the U.S, mi was away from urdish troops set ns in Kirkuk w ■d in, and there w Iraqis would isul, another noi iday. 1CK) miles to the id, U.S. commari was the likely site of by Iraqi forces - x one. Iraqi defends wed to have i other parts oft! .S. commandos w ii. and warplanes w 1 fighters and iqi positions nearc i Syria, where speci re trying to preve dists from slipping to keep foreign fij itering. its’ Weekend conn f the Year award i support for s of the year 1-University ning. Last year's pi; : Keith and xas. ile of events for if it http://parentswea lave some strong beginnings,” he said. Green and his band have come a ong way since playing at the Third *loor Cantina. His band has released ix albums, five of which were inde- endently produced. He also earned wo Grammy nominations for his lat- st CD, “Three Days." Jack McGregor, general manager at Hurricane Harry’s, said Green’s con certs usually draw capacity crowds. “We’ve sold them out every time we’ve had them in,” he said. “They (Green's management) called us out of the blue for this weekend’s shows, but we were happy to have him. We’re expecting a great turnout.” Green’s success has found him in a place where not many singers in the Texas music genre have been: being played nationwide on mainstream radio stations. He credits signing with Universal Records, which produced “Three Days,” for promoting his music nationwide. “On the independent level, we got to the point where I didn’t have the dollars to go out and promote myself,” he said. “Once we got involved with Universal Records in New York, the major labels just have so much money to go out and promote music wherever they see fit. Once they get that machine working, it makes it a lot easier to go out and tour new places.” But the transition to a national label hasn’t come without a cost. Some of his longtime fans in Texas began labeling Green a “sellout” for leaving the independent scene for a New York label. Jeff Bolner, a junior mechanical engineering major, said he preferred Green's music before he signed with Universal. “I preferred the music back when he was still singing about living in Texas and hanging out at the bar,” he said. “I don’t like his new stuff because has too much of the generic Nashville sound. I like the way it used to sound.” But Fans such as Lacey Love con tinue to support Green despite his Nashville success. Love, a senior agricultural journalism major, went to a Green solo acoustic performance five years ago and has been a fan ever since. She has followed Green on his path to stardom and is going to his Saturday night concert at Harry’s. “I’d really hate to see him step away from Texas Country Music,” she said. “I really think that he and Robert Earl Keen have helped out the Texas music scene. I’d hate to see him turn away from Texas.” But for Green, there’s no turning away from the Lone Star State. He said he doesn’t have any plans to abandon the style that got him where he is. “I can completely understand when a fan of a type of music or a fan of a band takes on a sense of ownership in that band, and that’s great,” Green said. “But I don’t feel like there’s any person in this world who wouldn't want to take whatever career they’re in to the highest level they can. If you don’t want to do that, then you lack ambition, and that’s not a fun way to go through life.” Although his band has become more prominent, Green said its music remains the same. “In one respect I say that’s tough if you don’t like what I do,” he said. “In the other respect, I just say to listen to the music, listen to what I’m saying, come out and watch the show. I believe we’ve stayed very true to what got us to where we are. I have nothing to be ashamed of when I put my music out there.” Advance tickets to Green’s show can be purchased for $18 at Harry’s, Cavender’s Boot City and Rother’s Bookstores. Ai.issa Holliman • THE BATTALION Texas songwriter Pat Green strums his guitar in front of a crowd of 8,000 at this year’s Ag kickoff. Green will perform at Hurricane Harry’s on April 12-13, 2003. ter, Opinion Editor >n Editor v, Sports Editor aub, Asst. Sports Editor hoto Editor ion, Asst. 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