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| Artist : Robert Earl Keen |
| Album : What I Really Mean (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : KOCH Records |
| Year : 2005 |
| Genre : Folk |
| Ripper : Kournikova |
| Rip date : 2005-04-13 |
| Store date : 2005-05-10 |
| Size : 75 megs |
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| 1. For Love I Did It 4:24 |
| 2. Mr. Wolf And Mambear 3:45 |
| 3. What I Really Mean 3:46 |
| 4. The Great Hank 4:51 |
| 5. The Wild Ones 4:27 |
| 6. Long Chain 5:31 |
| 7. Broken End Of Love 3:24 |
| 8. The Dark Side Of The World 4:52 |
| 9. The Traveling Storm 4:28 |
| 10. A Border Tragedy 4:10 |
| 11. Ride, Ride, Ride 3:42 |
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| 47:20 |
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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 and country |
| music, and his own style would land, like that of his close contemporary |
| Nanci Griffith, between those genres. Keen wrote poetry while he was in |
| high school, but it wasn't until he went to journalism school at |
| musically fertile Texas A&M that he learned to play the guitar. He and |
| Lyle Lovett became friends and co-wrote a song, "This Old Porch," which |
| both later recorded. |
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| Keen made a splash in Austin with his debut album, No Kinda Dancer, |
| self-financed in 1984 to the tune of 4,500 dollars. He moved to |
| Nashville during the heady experimentalism of the 1980s that saw Lovett |
| and k.d. lang hit the country Top Ten, but he soon returned to Austin. |
| Texas landscapes and residents provided Keen with creative inspiration, |
| as his second album, West Textures, made clear; that album yielded one |
| of Keen's signature numbers, an ambitious crime-spree song called "The |
| Road Goes on Forever." Now recording for Sugar Hill, Keen recorded a |
| live album shortly after West Textures but waited several years to |
| release a studio follow-up, 1993's A Bigger Piece of Sky. After that |
| album (which contained "Corpus Christi Bay") came Gringo Honeymoon |
| (1994), which merged Keen's story songs with the emerging sounds of |
| alt-country: guitars were laid down by the influential Austin musician |
| Gurf Morlix, who later produced albums for both Keen and Lucinda |
| Williams, and a young Gillian Welch provided harmony vocals. |
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| Once again, after taking his career to a new stage, Keen recorded a live |
| album (No. 2 Live Dinner, 1996) and took time to accumulate new |
| material. The 1997 album Picnic, his first for the Arista Texas label, |
| again moved in the direction of alternative country, featuring Keen in a |
| duet with the Cowboy Junkies' Margo Timmins, while 1998's Walking |
| Distance featured sparer textures. Whatever production style surrounded |
| his songs, Keen's musical personality seemed consistent, and his live |
| shows, widely known thanks to a touring schedule that often approached |
| 200 dates a year in the 1990s, grew organically in depth and control. In |
| the early 2000s Keen signed with the Lost Highway label and released the |
| album Gravitational Forces (2001). He also devoted time to his |
| influential annual concert series and talent festival, Texas Uprising, |
| which took place at several venues around Texas and the Far West. |
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