What’s going on / Music Friday To-Do: Robert Earl Keen


Whats going on / Music                    Friday To-Do: Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen plays             title track, do have a breezy,
Revolution Friday night.           driving-with-the-top-down
ROBERT EARL KEEN                   quality.
9 p.m. Revolution. $20 adv.,       Still, despite the shift in
$25 d.o.s.                         songwriting philosophy, Keen
Robert Earl Keen wrote his         continues to speak to the
first 15 albums "like a            happy misanthrope in all of
Buddhist monk standing around      us (his greatest hits comp,
in a cubicle," he said             released several years back,
recently. His latest, "Get         was aptly called "The Party
Ready for the Confetti,"           Never Ends: Songs You Know
which Lost Highway released        from the Times You Can't
in August, came together more      Remember"), with plenty of
like "a truck driver lighting      sly puns, dark narratives and
a cigarette in the wind."          love songs about people who
Considering how much time the      can't stand still. In other
Texas troubadour's spent on        words, you'll be happy to
the road in his 30-year            hear them next to "Amarillo
career, that's a bit               Highway," "The Road Goes on
surprising. Maybe it's a           Forever" and all his other
reflection of some mid-life        songs you know by heart.
mellowing from Keen, who's 55.     Cody Canada and the Departed
A lot of the songs on              open.
"Confetti," especially the         

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