Farm Fresh Onions

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Farm Fresh Onions
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 7, 2003 (US)
Genre Folk
Length52:36
Label Audium [1] AUD-CD-8191 (US)
Producer Rich Brotherton
Robert Earl Keen chronology
Gravitational Forces
(2001)
Farm Fresh Onions
(2003)
What I Really Mean
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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PopMatters (not rated) [5]

Farm Fresh Onions is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States on October 7, 2003 (see 2003 in music).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Furnace Fan" – 3:58
  2. "All I Have Is Today" – 3:28
  3. "Out Here in the Middle" (James McMurtry) – 4:29
  4. "Train Trek" – 6:00
  5. "Farm Fresh Onions" – 4:46
  6. "Floppy Shoes" – 3:36
  7. "Gone On" – 2:42
  8. "So Sorry Blues" – 4:23
  9. "Beats the Devil" – 3:01
  10. "These Years" – 3:49
  11. "Famous Words" – 3:46
  12. "Let the Music Play" (Robert Earl Keen, Bill Whitbeck) – 5:36
  13. "Farm Fresh Onions Extras" – 3:02

Chart performance

Chart (2003)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums24
U.S. Billboard 200172
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers9

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