Pat Green warms up for Luckenbach with a Friday night at Haute Spot

A week before he records a live album over two nights in Luckenbach, the Texas country fixture plays Cedar Park's Haute Spot on Friday, October 30.

Pat Green's live album from Luckenbach, the little Hill Country town with a dance hall and a general store, is out Nov. 13. This Friday he's in Cedar Park, and if you've been waiting for a reason to drive up 183, this is a good one.

Pat Green plays Haute Spot on Friday, October 30. The venue lists doors at 6pm and notes that times are subject to change, so check the Haute Spot calendar before you head out. Tickets go through the venue's site.

The bigger news is two weeks later. Green's live album from Luckenbach, on his own site, is out Friday, Nov. 13, recorded over two nights at the dancehall last November. Press coverage calls him only the second artist allowed to record an album there, after Jerry Jeff Walker, which is a big name to put next to your own. Walker's *¡Viva Terlingua!*, cut in the Luckenbach dance hall in 1973, is one of the founding records of the progressive country sound Green grew up on and later carried to a much bigger audience.

Friday is a Central Texas night two weeks before the Luckenbach live album arrives.

That makes Friday worth catching, just two weeks before the album lands.

Green and Central Texas go back a long way. Our records count 30 Pat Green shows in the Austin market, more than anywhere else he's played, and Haute Spot has become one of his regular stops. The room booked him in November 2024 too. It's a good fit for him: the venue holds about 2,000, big enough for a crowd that knows every word of "Wave on Wave" and small enough that the fiddle still cuts through. For anyone living north of the river, it also means not dealing with downtown parking.

If you've followed Green since the Lubbock days, when the Texas Tech crowd turned his shows into weekend rituals, Friday is the kind of night that reminds you why the Texas country scene drew such loyal fans to begin with. If you only know the radio singles, it's an easy way in. Either way, come early, find a spot near the rail, and plan on staying for the encore.

Sources: Pat Green — Haute Spot (hautespot.live); Haute Spot calendar (hautespot.live); Live from Luckenbach — Pat Green (patgreen.com); Pat Green Live in Concert, November 9th, 2024 — Haute Spot (hautespot.live); Pat Green — About (patgreen.com); Pat Green new album Luckenbach - CultureMap Dallas (dallas.culturemap.com); Viva Terlingua - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)