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It's been four years since Robert Earl Keen released his last studio album, What I Really Mean. With dwindling shelf space for CDs and slumping record sales, the Americana mainstay says he was unsure of how to approach a new project. Full Article at CMT - Country Music News
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It’s tempting to claim that the first is the good Keen and the second is the bad, but that’s too easy. Creating a chorus that’s so obvious, so contagious, so pleasurable that people want to sing along is a rare pop-music talent, and he’s got it. Full Article at Pate Magazine
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It's been four years since Robert Earl Keen released a new album, a result of his busy touring schedule. The two former Aggies recently collaborated on It's Rock and Roll, a song on Lovett's upcoming album Natural Forces. Full Article at Houston Chronicle
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It seems that no album by a Texas songwriter would be complete without a tip of the hat to the late master Townes Van Zandt. Guy Clark covered “If I Needed You” on his new album. Steve Earle did a whole album of Townes songs recently. Full Article at Popdose.com
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Four years is a particularly long lag between Robert Earl Keen recordings, but the Houston-raised Bandera native always turns out a few new songs that make it worthwhile, a few that are frisky and a few that are just fine. Full Article at Houston Chronicle
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They have a new-songwriters contest, and the first time I got up onstage there in the early ’80s, I won it ... It gave me a big boost.
– Robert Earl Keen SOURCE: The New York Times -
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I love his writing, and I feel he should be honored ... People know about Rod and Ronnie (Wood), they're famous. But I want to draw more attention to him. People should know he was the major shareholder in the writing.
– Ian McLagan SOURCE: Houston Chronicle -
That's a song I always use as an example between songwriting as poetry and songwriting that isn't
– Robert Earl Keen SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
