Pat Green

For a man whose new album begins with a powerful song called "Footsteps of Our Fathers," Pat Green has blazed his own trail in a way that few artists today can claim. Even with all the artistic and popular success he has experienced along the way, What I'm For is the stirring sound of Pat Green arriving as a major American singer-songwriter who has managed to make his own way in country music and beyond. To borrow a memorable phrase from the man's biggest hit to date, "Wave On Wave" of new faces have come along, but few have ever made such a vivid impression, both as a recording artist and performer as Pat Green.

True to the title of this latest, greatest and decidedly lived-in album, Pat Green has accomplished all this by truly knowing what he's for -- and what he's against too. He's done it by daring to follow his own strong gut instincts as an artist, And more than ever before on What I'm For, Green has done it by making music that honestly reflects his own attempt in his mid-thirties to actually grow up and walk like a man -- one very human footstep at a time. "I really do think of What I'm For as an album by husband and father" said Green.

So when it came time to make What I'm For, Green set himself some grown-up goals. "I wanted to make a perfectly circular record -- one that you could just put on repeat and really live with for a while," he explains. "But I also feel like my ultimate mission here was to beat the Wave On Wave album." The Wave On Wave album - with its enduring and moving smash title track -- were released in 2003 and spread the word of Green's remarkable talent far beyond the Texas borders where he had first established himself as a talent to reckon with back in the late Nineties. By then, Green's charismatic live performances were already evoking comparison to the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffet, among others....

-patgreen.com