| :::::::::::::::::::::::::::Articles not available Online::::::::::::::::::::: Cotton Bowl Review /*/...The marathon concert also included sets by Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Robison and singer Pat Green, who preceded the Chicks: As Mr. Green pointed out, he’s opened up for the trio before, in 1997 at the 500-capacity Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum. He had no problem graduating to the big stage Saturday, hamming it up and milking the festive crowd with aw-shucks stage banter: “If you don’t have a good time tonight, your good time thing is broke .’’ He briefly ventured into non-P.C. territory, donning a neon pink cowboy hat and a lisp and proclaiming himself “the buccaneer named Bruce.” But musically, there was nothing remotely challenging about his set, which included spirited fiddle-fired spins through “Born to Be Wild’’ and Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream.” Mr. Green is a meat-and-potatoes country rocker, a guy who sings simple, well-crafted tunes that sound an awful lot like beer commercials. It came as no great surprise then that between songs, he was more than happy to give a blatant plug to a beer company that sponsored the concert. Texas Music Magazine (Issue 13 Winter 2003) /*/...Pat Green also dominated the 2002 Country landscape with Three Days, his OCT. 2001 major label debut that has so far sold 189,000 copies, acording to Nielsen Soundscan. Meanwhile, by NOV. Pat was already 7 songs into his next studio project, which is being produced by Don Gehman (John Mellencamp, Hootie and The Blowfish). The album will be released as a joint venture between Republic Records, the Universal owned New York label that signed him, and Universal South. That could give Green a stronger foothold on mainstream country radio which only sparingly played "Carry On"and "Three Days" Both however, were hugh CMT hits, establishing him as an emerging star outside of Texas. "That accounted for a large portion of sales,"says Green of his CMT exposure. "When you have corporate radio basing their song list on such a small cross section and the research they do, the average country listener is not being represented by those huge conglomerates. I wish it was like the good old days when a radio station could break an artist. 'The Wolf' in Dallas and KVET in Austin did that for me, but its getting so much harder to do that. |
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