Texan Robert Earl Keen has maintained a rare consistency as a performer and songwriter for over three decades. His material has been recorded by George Strait, the Dixie Chicks and others, but he is still best known as an artist who can bring a room to a hushed silence with just his voice and guitar. The song that many of his followers might vote their favorite is his upbeat homecoming anthem, “Feelin’ Good Again.”

The Internet abounds with theories about what the lyric really means, so American Songwriter asked the author himself what was on his mind when he penned this classic. 

MARCH 7, 2020 REK IN KERRVILLE FOR ONE VERY SPECIAL NIGHT! Back by popular demand, his VERY special guests, highly acclaimed The Quebe Sisters!

“If you want Christmas music,” Robert Earl Keen told the Lincoln Theater recently, “go to the mall.” REK’s Countdown to Christmas Tour steered clear of holiday music until the encore, when he played the fan-favorite “Merry Christmas from the Family,” an ode to the dysfunction and craziness of the holidays.

Texas troubadour’s annual holiday trek features an outer-space theme

By: Joseph Hudack, Rolling Stone

Singer, songwriter, and entertainer, Robert Earl Keen, announced the launch of his eighth annual Christmas show with his most extensive tour yet. Following the success of his 2018 sold-out Christmas tour, Keen and his band are expanding to twenty cities in the month of December. Austin-based swamp-pop soul supergroup, Shinyribs, will join in the opening slot.

By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — Scientists theorize that faster-than-light travel is impossible. Those scientists clearly have never experienced a Cleveland summer of music.

Robert Earl Keen announces the launch of his eighth annual Christmas show with his most extensive tour yet! Following the success of his 2018 sold-out Christmas run, Keen and his band are expanding the tour to more cities than ever before, beginning December 2 in Greenville, South Carolina and concluding December 30 in Fort Worth, Texas. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 9, at 10:00 AM. 

Robert Earl Keen came through and played a fun show at the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theatre this past Saturday.

With Turnpike Troubadours on an indefinite hiatus their Medicine Stone music festival was down a headliner, until yesterday. Festival organizers announced on Monday (June 24) that perhaps the only man who could justifiably fill their shoes will in fact fill their shoes.

May 16, 2019, Nashville, TN... Robert Earl Keen announces upcoming tour dates for June and July, including performances with Tyler Childers, Turnpike Troubadours and The Lone Bellow. The sixteen shows are all on sale this week with dates in Montana, Colorado, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Keen is also performing with Childers at Red Rocks on September 30, which sold-out in 48 hours, and will be appearing at the inaugural Railbird Festival on August 10 in Lexington, KY with The Raconteurs and Brandi Carlisle.

By Jeff Gage, RollingStone

“I think a lot of people out there really just aren’t hip to [Americana],” says the songwriter, whose ‘Americana Podcast: The 51st State’ is streaming now.

Over the course of his 30-year career and countless number of performances, singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen has grown accustomed to standing onstage behind the mic. On April 30, Robert Earl will finally get to sit behind the mic as the host of the new project, Americana Podcast: The 51st State.

By Jim Casey, Nash Country Daily

In 2018, The Boot introduced the Golden Mic Awards, and in 2019, the reader-voted digital awards series is returning for another year! Recognizing the best in live country and Americana music, The Boot's Golden Mic Awards feature nine categories of staff-selected nominees who rule the stage.

Robert Earl Keen and Tyler Childers will play a series of upcoming shows in Texas in July. Keen and Childers became fast friends upon meeting at the Americana Awards in Nashville leading to the decision to join one another on tour. Additional dates are in the works.

Austin City Limits is thrilled to announce the host of the 2019 ACL Hall of Fame: legendary Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. This year’s celebration, to be held October 24th.

“Creativity begets beauty,” wrote Americana singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen in a recent email to us.

Keen should know. He’s now 30 years and 19 albums into a career that grew from a self-funded and -produced debut album into an acclaimed run of songwriting that’s begotten plenty of beauty. Of course, no one’s story goes as planned.

By: Justin Cober-Lake, The Daily Progress

In case you missed it, REK's song, "I Gotta Go" was featured on the CBS series, SEAL Team, March 20th! You can still stream it. The song starts at mark 36:53

STREAM EPISODE HERE

By Mark Engleson Parklife DC (DC's top blog for live concert reviews)

REK’s off-the-beaten-path, sophisticated, and witty songwriting puts him more in the Americana stripe than it does anything like today’s commercial country.

By: Robert Crawford Rolling Stone

The Unknown Fighter