William Clark Green Pays Homage To His Former College Town In New Single “Whole Lotta Lubbock”

Who doesn’t love a good origin story?

In his latest single, legendary Texas artist William Clark Green dives into his affection for the place he got his start as a musician, and leaves no doubt in who he’s rooting for come football season.

Titled “Whole Lotta Lubbock” Green’s fiddle-ridden ode to his West Texas college town and the home of the Texas Tech Red Raiders is a cleverly written tune that pays homage to a formative place in his life. This college town anthem acts as a quasi-origin story for one of the most underrated artists in all of country music, and moreover, one of the most under appreciated hotbeds for country music.

Check out William Clark Green’s new song here:

A long time ago, Lubbock was the hometown of then pop music superstar Buddy Holly, the singer best known for hits like “Everyday” and “That’ll Be The Day.” In the mid-1950s, at a Lubbock restaurant, Holly met a teenager by the name of Waylon Jennings, who had left his hometown of Littlefield located just 35 to the Northwest of town to pursue an opportunity with the local radio. Though Holly died in a plane crash at 22 years old in 1959, and Jennings eventually left town and became one of the most iconic country singers the genre has ever scene, the two laid the foundation for an unassuming music scene in the Texas Panhandle city.

With John Denver arriving in town to attend school in 1961, the scene has flourished ever since, and has been anchored in recent decades by an iconic venue called The Blue Light, which is serendipitously located on Buddy Holley Avenue, and has fostered an environment for artists and students both to immerse themselves in the incredible local, regional, and national, music that comes through Lubbock. With a total enrollment of nearly 60,000 students, Texas Tech University has drawn droves of young people to Lubbock, maintaining the youthful nature of the nature of the scene along the way.

A long list of artists that have gotten their start in Lubbock since then, with Pat Green, Josh Abbott, Flatland Cavalry, and Randall King being a few of the most notable. But don’t be fooled, William Clark Green’s name belongs up there with the best of them, and he’s made it clear in his latest single that he embraces the impact Lubbock has had on him. He even hosts a music festival in town every year called Cotton Fest that this year, among others, brought to town The Red Clay Strays, Treaty Oak Revival, and his seldomly touring West Texas Super group that alongside Green features Josh Abbott, John Baumann, and Flatland Cavalry’s Cleto Cordeo.

With an incredibly deep catalog of songwriting gold that includes six studio albums and three live album dating back to 2008, amidst a handful of singles that round out the collection, there is no shortage of proof as to why Green is so important to the Lubbock scene, either. Check out a few of my favorites from his catalog below.

“She Likes The Beatles”

“Still Think About You”

And while we’re at it, Green has an extensive tour scheduled for this fall that you won’t want to miss.