Robert Earl Keen News

"Hey, baby," X, Dave Alvin and Robert Earl Keen have all sung. "It's the Fourth of July." Wow, already? Instead of sitting on the stairs smoking a cigarette alone , why not check out some music? Assuming you're ...

Music City Texas Theater presents its First Saturday show for this Saturday featuring Grady Lee of Marshall.

By James Manheim 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 and raucous barroom ...

Posted by Matt Cuthbert June 10, 2008 11:03 AM With City Stages only a few days away, we've asked local music bloggers to offer their recommendations on must-see performances.

Like his heroes Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, the road is the only home Robert Earl Keen really knows.

A record-setting quarter of a million people spent part of Memorial Day weekend attending Riverfest in downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock.

Some of country music's top songwriters converged last week in Key West, Fla., for the 13th annual Key West Songwriters Festival, where they played free shows in the town's various nightspots and watering holes ... via CMT.com

Stephanie Cox jumps into the arms of Cat Whitehill, a former standout at Briarwood, after the U.S. Women's National Team defeated Australia 5-4 Saturday at Legion Field. via Everything Alabama

“For some reason we never really get down there.”

What: A series of concerts and roundtable discussions with more than 100 songwriters When: Today through Sunday. via Naples Daily News

The Mars Volta The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup has been announced. via JamBase

“Robert Earl Keen has a huge fan base in the area. People have been buying tickets from all over the country for the show and we expect it to be a tremendous concert.”

Even more music and fun are being packed into Lufkin's 16th annual "Downtown Hoedown" set for April 18-19. With so much going on this year, there is sure to be something for everybody to enjoy. via The Lufkin Daily News

“We'll be bringing in some new material”

Carrying an underlying appreciation for blue-collar America, the Workers appear Saturday at the Belt Creek Brew Pub. via Great Falls Tribune

“It really depends on where it's at”

Story updated at 7:32 PM on Thursday, April 3, 2008 Robert Earl Keen is no Marilyn Manson. via Athens Banner-Herald

“It looked like a cool place, so I decided to go. It was kind of on a whim.”

Hayes Carll has just released his third album, Trouble In Mind . His first, Flowers And Liquor , for Compadre Records, was produced by Lisa Morales of Sisters Morales. via Illinois Entertainer

Country, college radio fans agree A coustic guitar singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen will bring his country and folk sounds to The NorVa in Norfolk on Saturday. via Hampton Roads Daily Press

Snoop Dogg, Widespread Panic and the Vans Warped Tour are among the shows planned this summer for Sam Houston Race Park's new Showgrounds live-music facility. via Houston Chronicle

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Country fans get their music back on New York radio for at least one weekend a year, with the annual Country Music Festival that kicks off tomorrow on WKCR . via New York Daily News

Entertainment slated for Final Four Rap-rock, pop-punk, alt-rock, country and Latin hip-hop music will reverberate daily downtown during the NCAA Men's Final Four. via MySanAntonio.com

Now that you've read, discarded or re-gifted all those music books you got for Christmas, maybe you're up to mulling over some upcoming volumes, including an anxiously-awaited biography of Willie Nelson. via CMT.com

“These places are so old and people write songs about them, so people go out of their way to include them as tour stops. To me, those are the kind of places that deserve our respect.”

It's the perfect place for Texas Music icon Pat Green to celebrate the release of his first book. via MySanAntonio.com