Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Album: Happy Prisoner (The Bluegrass Sessions)
Bitrate: 229kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Dualtone Records
Genre: Bluegrass
Size: 90.27 megs
PlayTime: 0h 51min 45sec total
Rip Date: 2015-02-11
Store Date: 2015-02-10
Track List:
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01. Hot Corn, Cold Corn 3:24
02. 52 Vincent Black Lightning 3:57
03. Footprints in the Snow 3:13
04. 99 Years For One Dark Day 2:55
(feat. Peter Rowan)
05. East Virginia Blues 3:34
06. Poor Ellen Smith 3:46
07. Long Black Veil 3:51
08. This World Is Not My Home 3:16
09. T For Texas (feat. Lyle Lovett) 4:26
10. Peter Rowan Intro 1:37
11. Walls Of Time 4:39
12. White Dove 3:12
13. Old Home Place 2:57
14. Twisted Laurel 2:45
15. Wayfaring Stranger (feat. 4:13
Natalie Maines)
Release Notes:
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Mention the name Robert Earl Keen, and several descriptive terms spring to mind
û Texas singer-songwriter, career artist, brilliant storyteller, sardonic
humorist, poet of the strange and familiar. And now with the release of his
latest album, Happy Prisoner, there is what may seem a surprising addition to
that list û bluegrass singer.
ôI've had a lifelong love of bluegrass,ö says Keen. ôI've always had an affinity
for music that I felt like you'd listen to in your living room. Music that felt
real. My mom liked the old hillbilly music, and as a kid, I used to fall asleep
listening to an 8-track tape of Jimmie Rodgers' greatest hits. When I was in 9th
grade, one of my first dates was taking a girl to a bluegrass festival. That
sounds crazy for someone in Texas. But I was fascinated with that music, even
though it wasn't part of the gulf coast at all. When I started playing, my first
guitar hero was Norman Blake. In college, I had a bluegrass band called the
Front Porch Boys, went to fiddle contests, learned a jillion fiddle and
old-timey songs. My whole education in music started with bluegrass.
ôAnd that's partly where the album title comes from,ö he continues. ôI've been
listening to it forever, I love it, and so I feel like I'm something of a happy
prisoner of bluegrass."