Pat Green Carries On

There’s a certain way Texans help each other. It’s in the land. It’s in our bones.

We’ve watched it unfold over the past two weeks like a song we all know…familiar, honest and true.

Maybe something like “Carry On”

Josh Grider stood over a hot grill cooking meals for first responders like he was serving his own family. Josh Weathers turned his talent into tangible help.

Every artist that’s strapped on a guitar, passed the tip jar, donated their time or lent their voice are part of what keeps everyone going.

It’s the songwriters and the pass-the-hat crowd at Lone Star Float House where a grassroots circle of folks raised thousands with nothing but songs, sweat and the kind of generosity you can’t fake.

And then there’s all the ones you’ll never hear about. The ones gutting homes, clearing brush, babysitting for free, giving quietly because that’s just what you do when your people are hurting. You just show up.

Tonight, the entire music scene and state is pouring love on Pat Green. It feels like a full circle moment. A reminder of why any of us started doing this in the first place. He’s given his heart to Texas Music for decades and now Texas is giving it back to him when he and so many else need it the most.

That’s the thing about this music scene, about this state.

We dig in. We show up. We lift each other up by the bootstraps. One song, one dollar, one kind act at a time. Somehow, through the chaos, the grief and the mess, a little beauty starts to break through.

That’s Texas.

That’s who we are.

That’s what this Galleywinter family has always been about.

Pat Green showed us all the way all those years ago and now it’s coming back around. Sharing light amid the darkness.

There’s a certain way Texans help each other. It’s in the land. It’s in our bones.

-Brad