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Music CD - Jr. Robert Earl Keen: Live from Austin TX
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Music CD: Live from Austin TX
Artist: Jr. Robert Earl Keen
List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $10.48
Your Save: $ 5.50 ( 34% )
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Manufacturer: New West Records
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Dreadful Selfish Crime
2. Blow You Away
3. Shades Of Gray
4. I'm Goin' To Town
5. That Buckin' Song
6. I Still Miss Someone
7. The Coming Home Of The Son & Brother
8. The Road Goes On Forever
9. Merry Christmas From The Family
10. Snowin' on Raton
11. Not A Drop Of Rain
12. Wild Wind
13. Goin' Nowhere Blues
14. Down That Dusty Trail
15. Feelin' Good Again
16. Walkin' Cane
17. Travelin' Light
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0607396606627
Format: Live
Label: New West Records
Manufacturer: New West Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: New West Records
Release Date: 2004-11-02
Studio: New West Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: So What If He Can't Sing
Comment: Okay, REK can't sing. Neither can Bob Dylan. That's not the point. When you combine this excellent backing group with the gravelly voice of REK it works. It's really about the energy and the story telling anyway. Personally, I love this recording front to back. If you're a long time REK fan you already own this... if you're new to REK this album is for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: My favorite REK album
Comment: This is my favorite record REK has made. No. 2 Live Dinner was very disappointing because you can't hear Keen for all of the yelling/singing from the crowd, it ruins that album. "The Live Album" is a great one, but this one is even better IMO. What you've got here is an older REK with his full catalog with him - without the drunken fans screaming over his voice. He is great live and this time around you can actually hear him clearly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the Best of the Best
Comment: I'm not from Texas and I'm a relatively new REK fan, but this album was something of a disappointment for me. I own a number of his discs including "What I Really Mean" and "The Party Never Ends" and I love what I hear. I picked up some older ones too and loved them. I was excited to buy this live experience and it leaves me luke warm.
For a man who has a vocal range of about five notes, you'd think he could sing those few notes in tune. The opening track -- a rather odd version of "Dreadful Selfish Crime" sounds like a tone deaf drunk with laryngitis singing really bad karaoke. I could do without it. It hurts my ears. In fact, if I didn't have faith in the artist I would have turned the disc off after this track.
The band on this CD really rocks. That's the saving grace of the disc I think. "The Road Goes on Forever" is superb and REK even manages to do a decent job on the vocals on "Merry Christmas from the Family" and "Not a Drop of Rain." The instrumental music really drives this performance and it's too bad that the lead vocals can't seem to stay remotely in the same key as the rest of the band on most of the songs.
OK, I know that Robert Earl Keen is not known for the quality of his vocals, but for the intense story-telling and imaginative insight into humanity and its foibles. Love that part, for sure. He's kind of a Texas Bob Dylan of the millennium. But, I have to be truthful and say that this album disappoints because of the very tenuous vocals and the way that so many of the really hit-you-where-it-lives lyrics are lost in the mumble.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: No. 2 Live Dinner has always been my favorite Robert Earl Keen CD. However, I think Live from Austin may be even better. The sound is better than Dinner and the tracks are a really good cross-section of REK's best stuff. Aside from a "new" version of Dreadful Selfish Crime (my favorite REK song) that is, well, different, the CD is flawless (I like the track, I'm just too accustomed to the versions on No. 2 Live Dinner and on Party Songs). I would LOVE to see the DVD, but cannot find here in stores (but I'm seeing REK live tomorrow night, so the problem will soon be solved).
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Editorial Reviews:
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Those who have experienced a Robert Earl Keen show in his native Texas know it can be hard to hear the artist amid all the whooping and partying of his rabidly loyal following. This 2001 taping from the Austin City Limits series gives the singer-songwriter's range the attention it deserves. An eight-minute rendition of Keen's signature anthem, "The Road Goes On Forever," shifts that epic into overdrive, as the furious interplay of guitarist Rich Brotherton and steel guitarist Marty Muse finds the band firing on all cylinders. Yet the subtler selections are every bit as impressive, with his reflective rendition of Townes Van Zandt's "Snowin' on Raton" and the brooding melancholy of Johhny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone" highlighting the performance. Though Austin City Limits typically condenses an artist's appearance into a half hour for airing, this CD (with the performance also available as a DVD) presents the full studio concert. --Don McLeese
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