Since Pat Green started building a life in songs, framed with a husky voice that suggests long nights, worn memories and deep passions, and a battered acoustic guitar that was perhaps his most constant companion, the search for that truth has made him the kind of artist that just about all of Texas could see their own truths in. Along the way, he's garnered three Grammy nominations; had a Top 5 Billboard Country Single with "Wave On Wave"; sold out the Houston Astrodome twice; and done the kind of business in his home state superstars yearn for; and has had enough exportability to be certified Gold with Wave On Wave , his second album for New York's Republic/Universal Records.