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Pat Green to perform at Hurricane Harry's this weekend
By True Brown
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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.
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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.
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