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Biography

Patrick Craven Green was born in San Antonio and was raised in Waco, Texas. His parents, Craven Earl Green and Patricia Burgess, divorced when he was seven. His father, a former Air Force officer, was also a stage actor, which influenced Pat's love for music. When his mother remarried to a man with 5 daughters, Pat suddenly became one of nine children. Green attended grades 7-12 at Vanguard College Preparatory School in Waco, Texas.

Green attended school at Texas Tech and was a member of FarmHouse Fraternity. While a student at Tech, 18-year-old Pat started his music career by playing small gigs at bars and clubs around Lubbock. In 1995, with money borrowed from his parents, Green independently recorded and released a series of albums, produced by Lloyd Maines. He did not make a full commitment to his music career until 1997, when his stepfather fired him from his job as a fuel wholesaler. His stepfather saw Green counting the money he had made singing over the weekend and knew that Green needed a push to fully pursue his dream.

Soon Green caught the ear of Willie Nelson and began touring with him and other famous country musicians. His appearance at the 1998 Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic marked the start of his road to nationwide recognition. He was soon playing sold out shows in Texas (including at the Houston Astrodome). Green was sponsored by Miller Lite, and sold more than 250,000 albums—all without signing a major-label recording contract.

Green's first major-label recorded album, Three Days was released in 2001 and he has since released three more albums. The hugely successful "Wave on Wave" was released and brought with it a number 3 hit for the single of the same name. In late 2004 "Lucky Ones" was Green's 3rd and final CD release on the Universal/Republic label. After spending many years playing to young audiences in "college towns" across America, Green joined popular country music artists like Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, Kenny Chesney, and others on major headliner tours.

Green has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards.

Green released his album Cannonball in 2006. The same year, he toured with labelmate Kenny Chesney.

Green released his first book "Pat Green's Dance Halls & Dreamers". in February 2008. The coffee table-style book contains more than 200 photographs of 10 dance halls Green has frequented throughout his career such as Gruene Hall, Luckenbach, Floore's Country Store and Schroeder Hall, as well as behind-the-scenes interviews with Texas music artists like Willie Nelson, Jack Ingram, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and Robert Earl Keen.

In 2008, Green released the single "Let Me", the first single for his forthcoming album What I'm For. The song received a "thumbs down" review from the country music site The 9513. Critic Brady Vercher stated that the song sounded like "a case of a producer not realizing what works for an artist and applying his little bag of tricks to attempt to garner radio success rather than pushing both their boundaries to create something worthwhile."

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions		RIAA	Label
Year	Album	US Country	US 200	RIAA	Label
1995	Dancehall Dreamer				self-released
1997	George's Bar
2000	Carry On
2001	Song's We Wish We'd Written (with Cory Morrow)^{[[#endnote_A\|[A]]]}	26			Write On
2001	Three Days	7	86		Republic
2003	Wave on Wave	2	10	Gold	Universal/Mercury
2004	Lucky Ones	6	28		Universal/Mercury
2006	Cannonball	2	20		BNA
2008	What I'm For	TBR			BNA

Live albums

Year	Album
1998	Here We Go (Live at Gruene Hall)
1999	Live at Billy Bob's Texas

Notes

A^ Songs We Wish We'd Written also reached #13 on the Top Independent Albums chart.

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions			Album
Year	Single	US Country	US Hot 100	CAN Country	Album
2001	"Texas on My Mind" (with Cory Morrow)	60			Songs We Wish We'd Written
2001	"Carry On"	35			Three Days
2002	"Three Days"	36			Three Days
2003	"Wave on Wave"	3	39		Wave on Wave
2004	"Guy Like Me"	31			Wave on Wave
2004	"Don't Break My Heart Again"	21	116		Lucky Ones
2005	"Somewhere Between Texas and Mexico"	42
2005	"Baby Doll"	21	124
2006	"Feels Just Like It Should"	13	80	30	Cannonball
2007	"Dixie Lullaby"	24
2007	"Way Back Texas"^{[[#endnote_A\|[A]]]}	28
2008	"Let Me"^{[[#endnote_B\|[B]]]}	30			What I'm For

Other charted songs

All songs charted from unsolicited airplay on the country chart.

Year	Single	US Country	Album
2003	"Winter Wonderland"	43	A Very Special Acoustic Christmas
2006	"Way Back Texas"^{[[#endnote_A\|[A]]]}	48	Cannonball

Guest singles

Year	Single	Artist	US Country	Album
2001	"Texas in 1880"	Radney Foster	54	Are You Ready for the Big Show?

Notes

A^ "Way Back Texas" originally charted in 2006 from unsolicited airplay that brought it to #48 before its release. It was officially released as a single in 2007.
B^ Current single.