Keen launches Americana podcast
The podcast is intended to feature artists dedicated to Americana music. Keen, interviews musicians, exploring their histories, creative processes, successes, failures, and more.
Scheduled to premiere on April 30, the first season will kick off with two episodes featuring guests Jamestown Revival and Lucero.
"Our mission is reflected in the title," Keen said. "We want to define and expand the Americana music genre. Let's unify the musical styles of folk, blues, bluegrass, country, string band, garage band rock into a powerful collectible under the same umbrella. Let's make Americana, as Shakespeare said, 'familiar in his mouth as household words.' That is our mission. That is our goal."
The first season of the show profiles six artists and with new episodes releasing monthly. The podcast will be available for download on April 30.
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CD reviews for Robert Earl Keen
Talk about deja vu all over again, Robert Earl Keen's 'new' live album is a two-disc re-living, if you will, of the Texas singer-songwriter's "No. 2 Live Dinner," which was originally recorded in 1990. Performed again in front of an audience at John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes, Texas, "Live Dinner Reunion" includes many of Keen's best songs. It also features a few special guests, such as Lyle Lovett and Joe Ely.
This guest list is a little ...
Texas songwriter Robert Earl Keen may be known for his storytelling style and rowdy country-folk, but with this new album he reveals his fondness for bluegrass jams while bringing along his usual band and adding special guests Danny Barnes, Sara Watkins, Lyle Lovett, Peter Rowan and Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks.
If you're a contemporary bluegrass fan, prepare to be disappointed. Keen's voice isn't the typical smooth instrument of most genre stars, and the set list includes ...
If Robert Earl Keen had been noted for little more than being Lyle Lovett's neighbor/front porch jam pal at Texas A&M in the '70s and writing The Road Goes on Forever (from his 1989 sophomore album "West Textures") and Merry Xmas from the Family (from his 1994 album, "Gringo Honeymoon"), his status as a Lone Star legend would be well secured.
Of course, those are mere bullet-point accomplishments at the top of a long and illustrious resume, and Keen is a Texas music ...
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