Download Robert Earl Keen’s Merry Christmas From the Family on iTunes!
Mom got drunk and dad got drunk
At our Christmas party
The opening lines of this song set the stage for the rest of if. You know exactly what this song is going to be about from the get go. Imagine Cousin Eddy from Christmas Vacation. Now [...]
Download these classic country Christmas songs on iTunes!
For the holidays I thought I’d write about 12 of my favorite Classic Country Christmas songs. I was going to do this anyway, and then I found this group writing project sponsored by Litemind that ties in really well with it. I’ll go ahead and post the whole [...]
Driving into work this morning, there was nothing good on the radio, and I was too lazy to change CDs in my player. I’ve been listening to Robert Earl Keen Live at the Ryman for weeks now. Instead, I just turned the radio off and started singing to myself. Goofy? Yes. But I do it [...]
Patrick at ThisIsTexasMusic has an article about Lone Star beer’s contest to select an unofficial National Anthem of Texas.
He has all the nominees listed on his site, but I figured I’d pick out a few of my favorites of the classics. I’m not a Texan, so I don’t know if my vote counts..
Waltz Across Texas [...]
For some reason I woke up with this song in my head the other morning. I really love the opening line “Who wipes me off when I get gravy on my shirt?”
Mac Davis did some really good stuff back in the day. “In the Ghetto”, which he wrote, was a really big song [...]
Heard Johnny Rodriguez doing Robert Earl Keen’s “Corpus Christi Bay” on XM the other night. A damn fine song. My parents were big fans of his when I was growing up. I hope is able to stage some kind of comeback. Definitely a talented guy, and it’s nice to hear someone recording some of Robert [...]
