Robert Earl Keen

In a large number of excellent songs appear in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, Robert Earl Kean hit the unusual and sensitive balance between the story and picture bustle fun bar. The two different types of songs, Keane's media output by a unified sense of humor, strongly influenced by the early practitioners will be referred to as why alternative country music. Keane's son, oil executive father and the mother's lawyer, is a native of Houston. His parents are like folk and country music, as well as his own style would land, his close contemporary Nanci Griffith, among these schools. In high school, and he was enthusiastic about poetry, but it was not until he went to the School of Journalism in the music of the fertile Texas A & M, he learned to play guitar. He and Lyle Lovett became friends, and colleagues wrote a song "It's the old corridor," the guitar is to lay down their influential Austin musician Gurf Morlix, who produced the album after both Keane and Lucinda Williams Sri Lanka, and a young Gillian Welch provided harmony singing.