Label: | Dualtone |
Genre: | Country |
Product No.: |
ADUA 1685
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UPC: | 803020168510 |
Availability: | Limited Stock |
Category: |
180 Gram Vinyl Record |
No. of Discs: | 2 |
Note: | Download Card offer subject to expiration. |
180-gram double LP, mastered for vinyl
Album download included
Mention the name Robert Earl Keen, and several descriptive terms spring to mind — 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 — bluegrass singer.
"I've had a lifelong love of bluegrass," says Keen. "I'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."
"And that's partly where the album title comes from," he continues. "I've been listening to it forever, I love it, and so I feel like I'm something of a happy prisoner of bluegrass."
![]() | Side 1 |
![]() | 1. Hot Corn, Cold Corn |
![]() | 2. 52 Vincent Black Lightning |
![]() | 3. Footprints in the Snow |
![]() | 4. 99 Years For One Dark Day (feat. Peter Rowan) |
![]() | 5. East Virginia Blues |
![]() | Side 2 |
![]() | 6. Poor Ellen Smith |
![]() | 7. Long Black Veil |
![]() | 8. This World Is Not My Home |
![]() | 9. T For Texas (feat. Lyle Lovett) |
![]() | Side 3 |
![]() | 10. Peter Rowan Intro |
![]() | 11. Walls Of Time |
![]() | 12. White Dove |
![]() | 13. Old Home Place |
![]() | 14. Twisted Laurel |
![]() | 15. Wayfaring Stranger (feat. Natalie Maines) |
![]() | Side 4: 5 extra songs not available on CD! |
![]() | 16. Little Log Cabin Home On The Hill |
![]() | 17. Dark As A Dungeon |
![]() | 18. I’m Troubled, I’m Troubled |
![]() | 19. 14 Carat Mind |
![]() | 20. Steam Powered Aeroplane |
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