Jack Ingram

They're all still having careers.

I'm just saw Jack Ingram yesterday.

You know what I mean? And Randy Rogers.

And like, I just was like, okay, if I can't do this my way, then I can go back home.

Nice.

One night with Jack Ingram and one night with Hayes Carl.

And...

And it was a lot of fun.

I'd been there five times before I ever got to see a live show there.

And I think our first show we got to see there was, uh, Jack Ingram and Billy Joe Jones opened for him.

That's where we met her.

And then Cody Canada and The Departed played.

he played Charlie.

And, uh, and so man, him and Charlie and Jack, you know, they, they, like he was talking about, they ran around together back then.

Yeah.

And, uh, we had that live record.

Yes, yes

... greater Houston area.

I was, uh, actually, so that song I was playing, Gulf Prairie Blues, that's from, uh, that's down around where I was originally from, where my, my dad's family's all from down around, like, the Lake Jackson, Brazoria-

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Pat actually played... at a fraternity, uh, party in college station, uh, it was probably 96, like on the porch.

Uh, and it was kind of my first interview introduction to Pat Green and, um, you know, got into Robert O'Keefe and, uh, Jack Ingram and, uh, some of the, uh, you know, the early pioneers of, uh, of what is, I guess, Texas and red dirt.

And then, you know, found, uh, the great divide, you know, from Oklahoma, I guess, if we want to break it up into red dirt and Texas music, they're, uh, they're kind of the founders of, uh, that Oklahoma sound, I would, I would say.

And, uh, I started following the scene a little bit.

So it was like a lot of us from Texas that we kind of got together whenever I was stationed overseas.

And they were all playing songs by Jack Ingram and Pat Green and things that we'd all went to concerts for and loved before we'd went to the service.

And they were like, I want to write songs like that.

I want to play some Texas music.

it was, it was huge to me.

Um, uh, Jack Ingram was actually really helpful.

He, he...

Jack, Jack came from the Woodlands as well.