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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Too Much Nashville Production / Not Enough PFG Aug 12, 2009
As a longtime Pat Green fan, I will continue to support his music and see him in concert, where PFG truly shines. However, this latest effort is another example of how Nashville producers can influence an artist to move farther and farther away from the sound that made them fresh and unique to begin with. I wish those who claim to be big Pat Green fans would go back beyond the "Wave on Wave" album and discover what Pat Green once sounded like. His music was raw, much more stripped down, and a lot more honest. Listen to the passion in his voice in older songs like "Southbound 35", or the sincerity in "Dancehall Dreamer", or the honesty he sings with in a personal favorite of mine he has covered called "Nightmare". There just isn't anything on this album that compares, and unfortunately, I feel this album is a continued departure away from Pat Green's original sound. Every album since "Three Days" has slowly moved more and more away from that gritty Texas sound.
This remake of "Carry On" is the most obvious example of how Pat Green's music has become too over-produced. Listen to "Carry On" on the 2001 "Three Days" album, it was sung with passion that doesn't exist on the version on this album. By the way, the song lyric "My buddy Walt" was changed from "Walt Wilkins". Walt Wilkins is a Texas artist who has written a couple hits Pat Green recorded. Walt still plays that rootsy Texas country that Pat used to. I know what Nashville can do to an artist, and it's almost like Pat has lost touch with the sound that made him so popular to begin with. Sure he needs some radio friendly tracks, but I have a feeling Pat could still sell records quite well if he mixed in some tracks that were more true to his roots. Plus, that would help define what makes him unique with the fans of Nashville country. We have enough Rascal Flatts / bubble gum pop country artists already. Here's hoping Pat brings back some Texas/Red Dirt country songs on future albums.
 Where did Pat go? Jun 04, 2009
It is apparent Pat Green has sold out to Nashville. This album sounds like a cross somewhere between Rascal Flatts and Phil Vassar,not "the" Pat Green I know from George's Bar,Southbound 35,Songs About Texas or the OLD Carry On--"Come on down to Texas and drink with me a while".
This album is way too polished, over produced. It is made too appeal to the mass market. If Pat wants to set his career on fire he should just make a duet with Carrie Underwood or Taylor Swift--she seems to be the hottest thing these days, if selling out to Nashville isn't enough. I find it hard to listen to the old Pat Green music now. Pat should look to George Strait on how to make it in Nashville while staying true to his roots. This album sounds just like all the other pop passing for country coming out of Nashville.
Hey Pat enjoy Nashville, but don't mess with Texas.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Sorry to disagree, but... Mar 16, 2009
Sorry to disagree with some other reviewers, but having enjoyed some of Pat Green's earlier work, I think this is an over-produced product aimed at the mass market...strictly commercialized noise. IMHO this is why Green hasn't really made it to a wider CW audience, i.e., he has raised anchor and is adrift. He needs to take a look at other successful folks like Strait, Jackson, and others. They started with a solid foundation and built on it. Green reminds me of the ball in a pin ball machine who keeps bouncing from one point to another, with no good purpose and no point of reference.
I saw Green at our state fair where it was just him and some guy on guitar. Great...better than a lot of full concerts I've attended. There's a message in there for Green. Music, yes. Noise, no.
The song writing on this CD is as good as anything he's done. But...and its a big but...ditch the electronic fiddles, amplified drums, and the rest of the noise and make music instead of racket.
This will be the last new Pat Green CD's I will be buying...been burned too many times now with these recent releases.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome CD Feb 23, 2009
I have been a fan of Pat Green's from his really early days back in Texas and have all of his albums. I turned my wife into a huge fan of his as well and bought this on the day it came out. I will say it is a great CD and has the sort of sound that today's radio is aimed for while still holding on to his roots a bit with his sound. I feel it is a much better effort than "Cannonball" and like all of his cds, this one joins the rotation to where it goes every where we do and gets stuck in the CD player. I do agree with another review who wishes he would leave Carry On alone though as the original is one of my favorite songs of his and doesn't need to be messed with as it bridges nicely his old sound with his new. This cd is just more in his music evolution as he sounds and lyrics change as he grows.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not Sure if I will buy it??? Feb 16, 2009
After spending a little time in Texas, in particular Houston and Dallas, I really was excited about the artists who seemed not to have leaked outside the State. The Music and talent is so refreshing. Thanks to Lone Start 92.5 in Dallas I had the opportunity to hear Pat Green. He offers a really nice mix of country roots with some modern rock.. the music just felt good and not over produced. I own "Three Days" and "Cannon Ball"... While Cannonball may be a little more produced it still remains a little raw and possibly edgy.. But Three Days is a great collection and offering in music and "just right" production, it has "LIFE" on this album!
This New offering "What I'm For" seems to be missing the freshness and life that immediately drew me to Pat, and this was just listening to the samples! I know that I may have not given the album a fair shake yet but I can hear mass production and "canned" pop country music... the soul is missing... So I am not sure I want o buy this album...maybe I will pick it up used and then listen hard for a little gem to jump out.
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