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Robert Earl Keen Rescheduled

MOBILE, Ala- HUKA Entertainment is proud to announce Robert Earl Keen has been rescheduled and will be live in concert at Saenger Theatre on Friday, October 26, 2007. Doors open at 7p.m. Tickets are available for $32.50 and $22.50 and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Saenger Theatre Box Office, Ticketmaster.com, HukaEntertainment.com, or by phone at 1-800-277-1700.

Among the large contingent of talented songwriters who emerged in Texas in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Robert Earl Keen struck an unusual balance between sensitive story-portraits and raucous barroom fun. 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, is a native of Houston. His parents enjoyed both folk and country music, and his own style would land 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.

Keen made a splash in Austin with his debut album, No Kinda Dancer. He moved to Nashville during the heady experimentalism of the 1980’s that saw Lovett and k.d. lang hit the country scene, but he soon returned to Austin. Texas landscapes and residents provided him 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.”

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.

This will, without at doubt, be an incredible show by a man whose musical personality and live shows have grown organically, in depth and control. Don’t miss Robert Earl Keen in his rescheduled concert at Saenger Theatre on Friday, October 26, 2007.