Robert Earl Keen
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Biography
[Edit]Among the large contingent of talented songwriters who emerged in Texas in the 1980s and '90s, Robert Earl Keen struck an unusual balance between sensitive story-portraits ("Corpus Christi Bay") and raucous barroom fun ("That Buckin' Song"). These two song types in Keen's output were unified by a mordant sense of humor that strongly influenced the early practitioners of what would become known as alternative country music. Keen, the son of an oil executive father and an attorney mother, was a native of Houston. His parents enjoyed both folk and country music, and his own style would land, like that of his close contemporary Nanci Griffith, between those genres. Keen wrote poetry while he was in high school, but it wasn't until he went to journalism school at musically fertile Texas A&M that he learned to play the guitar. He and Lyle Lovett became friends and co-wrote a song, "This Old Porch," which both later recorded.
Keen made a splash in Austin with his debut album, No Kinda Dancer, self-financed in 1984 to the tune of $4,500 dollars. He moved to Nashville during the heady experimentalism of the '80s that saw Lovett and k.d. lang hit the country Top Ten, but he soon returned to Austin. Texas landscapes and residents provided Keen with creative inspiration, as his second album, West Textures, made clear; that album yielded one of Keen's signature numbers, an ambitious crime-spree song called "The Road Goes on Forever." Now recording for Sugar Hill, Keen recorded a live album shortly after West Textures but waited several years to release a studio follow-up, 1993's A Bigger Piece of Sky. After that album (which contained "Corpus Christi Bay") came Gringo Honeymoon (1994), which merged Keen's story songs with the emerging sounds of alt-country: guitars were laid down by the influential Austin musician Gurf Morlix, who later produced albums for both Keen and Lucinda Williams, and a young Gillian Welch provided harmony vocals.
Once again, after taking his career to a new stage, Keen recorded a live album (No. 2 Live Dinner, 1996) and took time to accumulate new material. The 1997 album Picnic, his first for the Arista Texas label, again moved in the direction of alternative country, featuring Keen in a duet with the Cowboy Junkies' Margo Timmins, while 1998's Walking Distance featured sparer textures. Whatever production style surrounded his songs, Keen's musical personality seemed consistent, and his live shows, widely known thanks to a touring schedule that often approached 200 dates a year in the '90s, grew organically in depth and control. In the early 2000s, Keen signed with the Lost Highway label and released the album Gravitational Forces (2001). He also devoted time to his influential annual concert series and talent festival, Texas Uprising, which took place at several venues around Texas and the Far West. 2003 saw the release of his eighth studio album, the amiable Farm Fresh Onions, as well as The Party Never Ends: Songs You Know from the Times You Can't Remember, a compilation of Keen's Sugar Hill days. His next release was 2005's What I Really Mean for the Koch label. It was followed in 2006 by Live at the Ryman. Rose Hotel, his first recording with famed producer Lloyd Maines, appeared in 2009 on Lost Highway. Keen decided to experiment for his next album, and began writing on the road instead of in his small, solitary cabin in the hinterlands of Texas. Once again recruiting Maines as producer, he cut 11 new songs — among them nine originals including a re-recording of "Paint the Town Beige" from 1993's Bigger Piece of Sky — and a couple of covers. It was released as Ready for Confetti on Lost Highway in the summer of 2011.
Title: Live At the Ryman
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: BEST
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Walking Distance (Bonus Track Version)
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Live Dinner Reunion
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Gravitational Forces
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Bigger Piece of the Sky
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Live At Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008: Robert Earl Keen
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Alternative
Title: The Rose Hotel
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Ready for Confetti
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: What I Really Mean
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Gringo Honeymoon
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: West Textures
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: #2 Live Dinner
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: No. 2 Live Dinner
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: No Kinda Dancer
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Picnic
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: A Bigger Piece Of Sky
Artist: Robert Earl Keen, Robert Earl Keen Jr
Genre: Blues, Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Live from Austin, TX: Robert Earl Keen
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country
Collections
Title: The Sexy Side of Country
Genre: Country
Title: Golden Alternative Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country Road Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Contemperary Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country Rock Road Trip
Genre: Country
Title: The Best of Times
Genre: Pop
Title: American Roots Singers and Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Sugar Hill 50
Genre: Country
Title: All American Blues Christmas
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Alternative Country
Genre: Country
Title: This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Genre: Country, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Tinsel Tunes - More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill
Genre:
Title: Poet - A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
Genre: Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Modern Country for the Road
Genre: Country
Title: Texas Fed, Texas Bred
Genre: Country
Title: Christmas Americana
Genre:
Title: Tennessee - Music State, USA
Genre: Country
Title: Cow Hear This!, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Essential Country Classics - Tired of Being Lonely
Genre: Country
Title: Best Outlaw Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country Heartbreakers
Genre: Country
Title: Alternative Country
Genre: Country
Title: Tulare Dust - A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard
Genre: Country
Title: Country Loves Jesus
Genre: Country
Title: When They Come Back We Give Back
Genre: Country
Title: Let's Step Outside
Genre: Country
Title: Texas Outlaws
Genre: Country
Title: Hillbilly X-mas
Genre:
Title: The Darkest Classic Country
Genre: Country
Title: Essential Singer Songwriters
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: This is Modern Country!
Genre: Country
Title: Blues for the Holidays
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest Classic Country Ballads
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Murder Ballads
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass On the Road
Genre: Country
Title: Country Kitchen
Genre: Country
Title: Discover Bluegrass Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country Christmas Crackers
Genre: Country
Title: The Saddest Country Songs Ever
Genre: Country
Title: Hits of Outlaw Country
Genre: Country
Title: Modern Country Ballads
Genre: Country
Title: The Greatest Country Christmas
Genre:
Title: All American Modern Country
Genre: Country
Title: Rambling Fever: Country Music Hits the Road
Genre: Country
Title: Country Music for the Road
Genre: Country
Title: Cuba: The Greatest Songs Ever
Genre: Latin
Title: This May Be My Last Time Singing CD3
Genre: Byzantine/Relegious
Title: Land Where The Blues Began
Genre: World Music, Country, Pop
Title: 100 Movie Hits (CD1)
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Soul Hits Of The 80'S (Disc 3)
Genre: Soul
Title: The Great Songs Of Christmas, Volume 5
Genre: New Age, Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Very Best Of Back To The Movies (CD2)
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Best Of Travelin' Texas
Genre: Country
Title: Now Thats What I Call Christmas
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Modern Country Music (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Rough Guide To Americana
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Lofty'S Roach Souffle
Title: Country Rock Deep Cuts
Genre: Country Rock
Title: Beautiful Country Music 2017 (CD1)
Genre: Country, Alternative
Title: Alt-Country Essentials (CD2)
Featuring albums
Title: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver - Live
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country
Title: Austin City Limits Music Festival 2005
Artist: Various
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Outlaw: Celebrating the Music of Waylon Jennings (Live)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country