Pat Green is a Texas fixture. True story; when I moved here, he was all over billboards for a local car dealership advertising Two Texas Originals. And that, o Daily Vault faithful, is all I knew about him. So when I got a chance to review his latest disc, I figured it would be worth a shot.<\/p>\n
For the most part, it was a good decision. I haven\u2019t heard any of Green\u2019s past work, so judging on its own merits Cannonball <\/i>is a nice country-rock CD but not anything groundbreaking. It doesn\u2019t take your breath away, but it\u2019s pretty good driving music. The impression I get, though, is that Green is something special, something more than just a good singer — and at least one Web site I found (see, I do research) says that he was better, much better, when he was still recording his own CDs on an independent label.<\/p>\n
What I\u2019ve tried to do is listen to Cannonball<\/i> on its own merits, and there are a good number of them. Green has a great voice — it\u2019s got a little rasp and smoke to it, but it\u2019s also clear and very musical. The musicianship is dynamite; I wish I could tell you who performed on this CD, but the liner notes are practically non-existent and what there are are all dedications and thank-yous. (I don\u2019t mind dedications and thank-yous, but I\u2019d like to know who the drummer was, too.) The production is non-descript and lets the music speak for itself, and that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n
The flaw on Cannonball<\/i> is the songwriting. The musical style is straight-ahead country-rock with a distressing tendency to wrap itself in a cloak of blandness. There are a couple of notable songs on Cannonball<\/i> — I really enjoyed \u201cWay Back Texas,\u201d \u201cMissing Me,\u201d \u201cLost Without You\u201d and the deeply reflective and powerful \u201cI\u2019m Trying To Find It,\u201d but the rest sort of blend into a haze of similarity. One of the local radio stations is playing the first single, \u201cFeels Just Like It Should,\u201d and while it\u2019s a decent song it could be in the musical dictionary next to \u2018Generic Country-Pop Driving Song.\u2019<\/p>\n
Cannonball<\/i> does nothing new. But what it does do, it does well. It\u2019s not a groundbreaker, but it\u2019s not bad, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7885],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40110","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pat-green","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40110"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}