Robert Earl Keen
USA
Born: 11 January 1956
Genres: Folk, Pop/Rock, Country
Styles: Progressive Country, Country-Folk, Alternative Country, Contemporary Folk, Americana, Alt-Country
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Among the large contingent of talented songwriters who emerged in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, 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 an...
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