CANNONBALL - PAT GREEN
Pat Green is the kind of accessible artist who can open for Kenny Chesney one night and Dave Matthews Band the next, and he serves up plenty of likeable country rock on his fourth major-label effort. The title cut is Mellencamp-styled Americana that Green’s fans just eat up, and there’s more of the same in the nostalgic “Way Back Texas” and rough-hewn romance of “Love Like That.” Indeed, Green is a big ol’ romantic at heart, never moreso than on the piano-based ballad “Dixie Lullaby” and a really nice duet with Sara Evans, “Finder’s Keepers.” He has a hit on his hands with the El Camino road anthem “Feels Just Like It Should,” and he gives one of his best studio performances to date with “Sleeping With the Lights On.” Billboard
