Pat Green - Lucky Ones

Unlike his fellow Lone Star troubadours Jack Ingram and Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green has a sweet, buttery finish to his tough, sinewy Texas twang. On his 2004 release Lucky Ones this sweetness works handily on searching romantic ballads like One Thing (written by Ingram), Temporary Angel, and the lovely Radney Foster-penned title tune.

But like Ingram and Keen, Green also knows how to get lowdown and rowdy, which he does in spades on a tongue-in-cheek reminiscence called College (which Green co-wrote with Brad Paisley) and Sweet Revenge, an exquisitely bluesy, eye-for-an-eye anthem co-written with Ray Wylie Hubbard. ~ Bob Allen

• Baby Doll
• Lucky Ones
• Somewhere Between Texas And Mexico
• Don't Break My Heart Again
• My Little Heaven
• College
• One Thing
• Over And Over
• Long Way To Go (Headed Home)
• Temporary Angel
• It's Time
• Sweet Revenge