It is difficult to envision the moment playing out any other way. Robert Earl Keen, seated onstage at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, Texas, had been playing for 3,000 people for nearly ...

Unless you’re the queen of England, you have to wait seventy-five years to celebrate a diamond jubilee. (Thanks to Queen Victoria, monarchs get to celebrate fifteen years before the rest of us ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March of 2020, country stars were suddenly faced with a series of unexpected decisions to make regarding their band and crew. With tour schedules scrapped, many ...

Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen has had a special relationship with Santa Cruz for decades. People here love his alt-country sound, heartfelt lyrics and the sheer gusto he brings to his ...

During his headlining debut at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colo. on Sept. 30, Tyler Childers regaled a sold-out crowd with an appearance from iconic singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. Keen ...

Years before he recorded a note of music, Texas singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett bought two copies of "How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording." He gave one to a friend, another writer with good songs ...

Robert Earl Keen was in his tour bus, riding down the interstate from D.C. to Charlotte in the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 2021, when he realized it was time to come to terms with a major life ...

On Wednesday, July 9, Robert Earl Keen announced several significant details surrounding his Texas benefit concert, Applause for the Cause. The concert comes in response to the Texas floods that ...

The last time we talked with singer Robert Earl Keen, it was 2009 in Austin, Texas, and Keen told us a story about how he woke up one day to find his wife standing in the doorway shooting at cats with ...

This is FRESH AIR. Robert Earl Keen is best known as a Texas-based singer-songwriter in the story-song tradition of Texas forbearers Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. His new album, "Happy Prisoner: The ...