CD Review: Three Days - Pat Green
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one video on CMT's Most Wanted Live only a week after it debuted on the channel. It is the perfect song to represent Pat, he is going to deal with whatever comes his way and then he will carry on.
Willie Nelson joins Pat on the mellow "Thread Bare Gypsy Soul," a song about a heart that has a wild streak and has had it for quite some time. Both of the men hope that they can still make it into Heaven when the time comes, because they do not see themselves settling down and stopping the drinking and smoking anytime soon since they are so set in their ways. The intense sounding "Galley Winter" is one of my favorite stories from this album. In the beginning we hear of a little boy out in the front yard playing with a toy pistol, red cowboy boots, and a red cowboy hat chasing down the bad guys. When his sister came outside and asked if she could play with him, he replied, "there aren't any girls allowed in Galley Winter," yet in the next line he says that times have changed and a girl is nice to have with him riding around with him. "Whiskey" is yet another notorious tune down here in the Lone Star State and I think it would quite possibly make an excellent second single from the Three Days album because it seems to fit with "Carry On." The whole song is about when his girlfriend left him and his mom thought it was his fault because she asked him what he did to make her go. The man was depressed so he went on down to the bar and, as he drowned his sorrows in self-pity wondering what one thing he did wrong, drank as much whiskey as he could. Later on down the road she called him and said she is on her way back and suddenly he could not wait until tomorrow because he just knew that everything would be fine. "I'll put away my whiskey, I guess I just don't need it anymore," he says as if nothing ever happened. "Take Me Out to the Dancehall," a perfect title for this song as you would expect to hear it in such a place, was the very first song I heard from him back when I was getting into the whole "Texas Country" scene. It just has that honky-tonk bar feel to it and it got me hooked with the toe-tapping beat and non-politically correct nature that you might not find in other artist's music. There is a rootsy, traveling, flair to "Count Your Blessings," a song that reminds us to be thankful for the things we have because there are people out there in other parts of the world that do not have as much as us. Along with that particular message you also hear other pearls of wisdom from Grandpa, Grandma, and various others. There is a mixture of old songs and new songs on Three Days, and I think that is great because it keeps with his success in Texas and the success is about to have with the rest of the world. Song List:
Audio Clips courtesy of Pat Green's Official Website.
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