The Live Album

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The Live Album
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 15, 1988
RecordedThe Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas, Texas
Genre Folk
Length35:28
Label Sugar Hill [1]
Producer Jim Rooney [2]
Robert Earl Keen chronology
No Kinda Dancer
(1984)
The Live Album
(1988)
West Textures
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Live Album is a live album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. [4] It recorded at the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, TX, and released in 1988 on Sugar Hill.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Robert Earl Keen, except where noted

  1. "I Wanna Know" (Robert Earl Keen, Fred Koller) – 2:46
  2. "The Front Porch Song" (Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett) – 6:29
  3. "Goin' Down In Style" – 3:39
  4. "If I Were King" – 2:51
  5. "Copenhagen" – 2:08
  6. "I Would Change My Life" – 2:43
  7. "Stewball" (Traditional; arranged by Robert Earl Keen) – 2:38
  8. "I'll Go On Downtown" – 3:52
  9. "The Bluegrass Widow" – 6:10
  10. "Who'll Be Looking Out For Me" – 2:12

Personnel

In the liner notes, Keen dedicates this album with the simple line, "FOR MOM AND DAD."

Musicians

Production

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References

  1. "Robert Earl Keen? That's Another Story : The Texan's Lyric Songwriting, Literate and Full of Emotion, Ignores Country Formulas". Los Angeles Times. May 25, 1995.
  2. Rooney, Jim (February 28, 2014). In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey. University of Illinois Press. ISBN   9780252096068 via Google Books.
  3. "The Live Album – Robert Earl Keen | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  4. "One More Image". www.austinchronicle.com.