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Robert Earl Keen satisfies
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Robert Earl Keen satisfies
"The Rose Hotel," Robert Earl Keen (Lost Highway)
There are few more personable voices in music than that of Robert Earl
Keen. A contemporary of Lyle Lovett (the two wrote the great "The
Front Porch Song" while they were both students at Texas A&M) and
championed by Nanci Griffith (she recorded his "Sing One for Sister"
early on), Keen got his real shot at fame in the mid-1990s when morning
radio began playing his lovably irreverent "Merry Christmas from the
Family."
For a little while it seemed as if the morning radio push might have
just pushed him over the edge. Keen has always been made of deeper stuff
than the yuck-happy radio performances (good as they were) would've
indicated. Keen is, in fact, one of the those rare entertainers who can
charm the fan operating on the lowest level of consciousness (think about
the drunkest frat boy you've ever sat beside) and the deeper thinkers in
the crowd - no small feat.
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