{"id":2453074,"date":"2020-01-09T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/country-rocker-pat-green-back-at-belly-up-aspen-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:56:00","slug":"country-rocker-pat-green-back-at-belly-up-aspen-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/country-rocker-pat-green-back-at-belly-up-aspen-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Country rocker Pat Green back at Belly Up Aspen on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pat Green<\/a> has penned Lone Star state anthems like \u201cI Like Texas\u201d and \u201cSouthbound 35,\u201d he\u2019s made party-friendly country rock hits like \u201cWave on Wave\u201d and \u201cFeels Like It Should,\u201d and he has become a standard bearer of Texas country over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n

He brings out cowboy boots and Stetsons in the crowd wherever he goes, including dependably rowdy shows during his regular stops in ski country. Green is on a swing through Colorado this week, headlining Belly Up Aspen on Friday night between stops in Steamboat Springs and Denver.<\/p>\n

Colorado was one of the first places Green began playing outside Texas as his national profile rose.<\/p>\n

\u201cColorado and Texas, that\u2019s a brother-sister relationship,\u201d he said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to do anything without Colorado. I love Colorado. I get a little contentious with it sometimes, but when I\u2019m there I\u2019m more respectful of people\u2019s opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

After making 2009\u2019s \u201cWhat I\u2019m For,\u201d which hit No. 2 on the country charts and spawned the hit \u201cLet Me,\u201d Green soured on recording with his label, Nashville-based BNA Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was tired of making records by committee,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s some guy sitting in the room with you telling you what to do. So I left and started doing other stuff, writing different kinds of songs. It\u2019s more organic, and I\u2019m more at peace with this record.\u201d<\/p>\n

So he came back on his own with \u201cHome,\u201d self-released, in 2015 and including guest appearances from Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Delbert McClinton and Marc Broussard.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t made a full-length album since, but has kept releasing singles like \u201cDrinkin\u2019 Days\u201d and this fall\u2019s \u201cLeaving My Leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should come as no surprise that the self-styled, self-made country star \u2014 who emerged as a sort of anti-Garth Brooks in the late \u201990s \u2014 chafed under the control of his label. Green first made a name for himself in Texas and across the South in the \u201990s by barnstorming clubs and honky-tonks, selling tapes out of the back of his car. College kids traded his independently released CDs around campuses in the late 1990s, which led him to sold-out club shows, then arenas and, eventually, stadiums like the Astrodome and a major label record deal.<\/p>\n

After three self-released records, he signed to Universal for 2001\u2019s \u201cThree Days\u201d and followed it with the national hits \u201cWave on Wave\u201d and \u201cLucky Ones,\u201d then bounced to BNA for \u201cCannonball\u201d and \u201cWhat I\u2019m For.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jumping ship from the majors was a return to his indie roots.<\/p>\n

Along with his albums of original songs, Green has proved himself a thoughtful interpreter of others\u2019 songs, on his two \u201cSongs We Wished We\u2019d Written\u201d releases. The first, from 2001, with Cory Morrow, offered his takes on Waylon Jennings, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt and other legends. The sequel, released in 2012, highlighted Lyle Lovett and Tom Petty alongside a diverse array of lesser-known writers.<\/p>\n

Choosing a good cover song is simpler than you might think for Green.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like when you eat a good steak or sandwich, or taste a good beer \u2014 you just know a good song when you hear it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou say, \u2018I want to hear that song 20 times in an hour.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pat Green has penned Lone Star state anthems like \u201cI Like Texas\u201d and \u201cSouthbound 35,\u201d he\u2019s made party-friendly country rock hits like \u201cWave on Wave\u201d and \u201cFeels Like It Should,\u201d and he has become a standard bearer of Texas country over the past 25 years. He brings out cowboy boots and Stetsons in the crowd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 21:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}