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July 6, 2006
Pat Green @ House of Blues, Sunset Strip: July 5, 2006
Yeah, yeah, so I know I'm probably the lone Pat Green fan who reads barflies, but fuck it - I'm going to tell you how awesome this show was anyway! Texans and wanna-be Texans alike invaded the Sunset Strip last night to see a guy who can sell out arenas in his homestate play the much smaller House of Blues, which was conducting VERY thorough security searches (fortunately, the HOB staff was even joking about it - they were probably the nicest I've EVER seen them). The Texans who came out to this show, however, were almost obnoxious about their Texas pride - I mean, what other state would even consider bringing a Texas flag to wave during the show? Can you even imagine a state like, say, Minnesota representing itself as such? If you love Texas so much, why not just go back there? Anyway, Pat's best songs are not his radio hits ("Wave on Wave" which put him 'on the map' in Top 40 Country is easily his most boring song IMO), but he still has enough brains to know that if he's got a song like Radney Foster's "Three Days" in his repertoire, he'd better damn well keep playing it. Other crowd favorites included "Southbound 35," "Take Me Out to a Dancehall," "Carry On," "California," and "Crazy," which I'll admit, made me cry like a baby.
Diss Pat Green all you want for his Top 40 success. Then go buy his Three Days CD. And then his Lucky Ones CD. And then maybe Wave on Wave (but skip the title track). And Dancehall Dreamer. And oh, yeah, Cannonball will be released on August 22. Get that one, too.
Posted by darlin at July 6, 2006 9:24 AM
