February 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Texas country legend Robert Earl Keen dropped by the show to talk about his latest projects and lots more happening in 2025! We relive the glory days of all the great hits and tune in to hear some amazing stories from one of the best ever to do it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Robert roy Keane, Texas country artist Robert
Earl Keene, and you are listening to a grand slam
of music and sports on the Backstage Pass, exclusively on
kk TC True Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, welcome inside the Backstage Pass again powered by that website,
to the sports Guys podcast dot com KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine and again the broadcasting from the
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Today's Best Country Mex.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I told you guys, we had a great one today
and of course one of the all time greats Texas
country music legend, Robert Earlkeen here to the backstage Pass,
mister r e K.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Doing very well, Brandon. I hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And it sure is. My friend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Always good to talk music, and I want to start
with your podcast, the Americana Podcasts out there on all
the streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. I
love listening to this show because sometimes I'm just so
kind of tuned in out there too to a lot
of the great questions of singers and songwriters out there.
You guys have had this thing going for a while.
You had some amazing talent on there, and it's probably
(01:06):
a little bit different from being I guess the interviewer
to the interview e from some times. But talk about
just the Americana podcast, how it got started, and just
how much fun you're having with this project.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
My daughter is not a musician, but she's a music officionados.
She knows everything from jazz, metal to hip hop to country,
and she's an encyclopedia of music, and you know, she's
always pushing me to, you know, get into the twenty
first century. So about five years ago she said that
(01:38):
we ought to do a podcast and I was like,
you know, how much work does and she said, she said, well,
it's gonna be worth it, Dad. So I said, okay.
So we got together and she produces it and I'm
the interviewer. And like you said earlier, the going from
the beat being the interview e to the interviewer, I'll
tell you that was a steep, steep Lerman learning curve
(02:00):
for me. I've been on that side of the been
on that side, on my side of the microphone for
so many years and to get on your side, Brandon,
the microphone was like a you know, you just want
to scream about half the time, like, I don't know
what to do now, I don't know. I hope I
don't sound stupid. So but we just pretty much interview
(02:26):
singer songwriters, mostly singer songwriters, musicians every once in a
while somebody from the industry, and uh and after a while,
I just settled into it because it was just, you know,
it was interesting to me to be able to talk
to so many really great artists that I talked to
and actually get them to tell me their process and
(02:49):
get them to like, you know, explain their whole you know,
year in year out, as far as touring goes, and
you know, how they do in the markets such as
television and and this series Bonanza that's going on, and uh,
you know, just you know, after a while, you realize
it's not just the learning curve, it's a learning platform.
(03:12):
So I learned so much during the Americana plododcast.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know, there's so much great talent you've got to
interview it. So have I here on the show. Both
the Just Country Music and Americana used to work for
K and VT and the Broncos up there the Americana
Station for a few years. Loved it up there too,
and got to go several of your performances out there.
Just talk about the talent these days, both in a
male female category and kind of who you're you're digging
right now, who's the new artists kind of that are
you know making waves out there for you male female?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well there, there there are so many. I mean, as
you well know, Brandon, there are just so many. It's
it's kind of hard to keep up with one lady
that's been around a little a little while, but I
think she's really making some real strides, particularly in the
Texas country music genre. Katie Offering has done some shows
(04:02):
with that with us lately. And also I've known Katie
for several years, and you know, she just started out
like playing the fiddle with people, and she's a real
accomplished musician, but she's become an incredibly accomplished performer. So
and Wright's really good songs. She's one of my favorites.
(04:23):
We're doing a show, and he's been around a little
while in the country of music scene, but I've gotten
where I really do like his stuff. Red Sheehan just
really really good. And you know, you know, of course,
all my friends that are still still running around going crazy,
like Reckless Kelly or Randy Rogers, those kind of people
(04:46):
are still doing some really great stuff these days. So
there's no end to how many good artists you can
find these days. I just heard one from my friend
up in Kansas City, some young lady, Kelly Hunt, and
I just got a piece of her music, and she
(05:07):
was really cool. I really enjoyed her. Just I don't know,
just you could just make a list from here to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Sure good, no doubt. And of course you guys gonna
be on a big headlining tour for most of the
spring of that. Key stop is gonna be in Los
Angeles with a good friend, Tyler Childers at the Hollywood Bowl,
and of course many dates out there. Willie Nelson, of course, Turnpike,
Red Rocks talk about this. It's still full tour listing
out there too, as well.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Robert L.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Keen dot com backslash Tour talk about this and always
exciting to see you on the road.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know, I retired a couple of years ago, in
twenty two, and you know, after a long period of
just sitting around. You know, I thought maybe, like I
could become a woodworker, and I realized that that was
not meant to be. And I didn't have anything to
(05:57):
do but pet my two cats, handsome and ran some
and my dog Roadie, and found out that you know, like,
you know, my life was meant to not only be
on the road and play songs for people, but you know,
keep creating and without being on the road. For some reason,
I kind of dried up in the created field. So,
(06:19):
you know, back at it again and feel much better
about it. I know I made some real promises about
like I'll never come back. I'll never come back, but
you know, life happens.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Does happen, no doubt about it too. I love that
you guys digitally released that really cool album Western Chill.
This was really cool June seventh. A lot of cool
things on this, some great songs out there talk about
just this project and overall the body work in my front.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, one of my absolute favorite things I've ever done
was the Western Chill project because that was in right
right at the beginning of COVID and you know, my
band had been with me something years and they were
all you know, working with me, and I didn't want
(07:05):
to let them go, and I didn't want to cut,
you know, slash a bunch of things just because we
didn't know what was going to go on during then.
So I kept them with me. And you know, after
a couple of months and no one was sick or anything,
we started rehearsing. And I have a ranch out just
a little bit in north of Medina, Texas, and they'd
(07:27):
come out there and we'd spend the weekend rehearsing. After
a few weeks, I thought, you know, I was sitting
outside outside this place I called the Snake Barn, which
I turned into a video studio and recording studio, and
I was out there by myself and I made up
this song Western Chill, and then I so inspired I
(07:48):
kept going. I wrote about I don't know, I think
that was my all, my personal best, as they say
in the sports world. My my pb was that night
where I wrote five songs in that one night. And
when those guys showed up for rehearsal the next time,
I said, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
this song Western Chill. I'm gonna play it for you,
(08:10):
and I want you guys to think about this song,
and I want you to bring me any of the
songs that you think fit kind of with this song.
And all of my guys, you know, write songs as well.
They're great writers, they're great players, you know, good guys,
great musicians. And but what I was surprised at was
that when they brought me the songs that they felt fit,
(08:30):
they just fit perfectly. And so we started rehearsing those
songs and rehearsing some of these other songs that I
wrote that very same night, and we had a whole
album full of recording. All of a sudden, it just
was like it was like magical. It all fit. We
(08:51):
had plenty of material. We sat down and rehearsed that
whole thing as a record a couple of times, and
then I got my friend Cameron Gott lives in Walksahatchie
that does a lot of photography and videography, and had
him come down there in video tape our debut as
(09:11):
far as playing that whole record at one time at
the Snake Bar, and guys played great. I think we
did two takes. The one take we just we just
barely missed it. The second take we did it perfectly.
So we printed up LPs and made this big box
set of an LP DVD, a songbook, and a graphic novel.
(09:39):
All comes in one big box weighs four pounds, and
we put that out for a little while and then
decided to kind of back up because it was still
we were still kind of in the throes of that
whole COVID thing, So we waited a little while, and
so finally in June seventh, we put it all out
digitally and it's had a really great response. But other
(10:04):
than that, other than just the response, it's been one
of my favorite projects because it truly was a banned
inclusive project where it was all of us got together,
all of us got to practice together, all of us
acted like, you know, we were just kids on a porch,
like we all started out, you know, just jamming, and
so this is a little really cool record that we
(10:28):
all jammed together and there was a great bonding experience
that we hadn't had in years and years, and so
for my money, it was one of my most heartfelt
efforts ever. And you know, I believe that the record
itself reflects that. If you sit down and listen to
(10:49):
it and it's exactly as advertised. It's very chill. It's just,
you know, easy to listen to, easy to listen to
from the first track the very.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Last track, that title too as well.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We're gonna chill here on the backstage passer now play
Little Robert Rokane music Unknown Fighter Exclusive here kk t
C True Country ninety nine point nine out there powered
by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. It is Robert
Keane and Unknown Fighter Here. It is breaking up and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And jeezus Tom Gym the benal Time Inside City Jam.
The Unknown by bullops into the gym Texas Cone and
(11:51):
is in for at the bell Sunday love his name.
It fills with davy punches, land and didn't.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Very God.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Another man goes down down grounds, the standing, small, dark
(12:32):
face and smoking, plain dark sideware house. I've seen better
than night me an five steps into the man.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
The darm Man is dangerous modern flags, some boy that
so well loved nag.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
He kneels it, Dabby fun cheese.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Man day.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
We card.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Another man goes down down gun he still.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Standing, turn of courch. God knows why.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
To contender will never make the show now the unnumbad
this begain in the eye of the chappion. Imagine the
blow somebody that said, well knows the god expat Live band.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Dozen rather the champions stand.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Still stand.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Stand Here you go.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
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Again when.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Come enter.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
Robert O'Keane here on the Backstage Pass Unknown Fighter Again.
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to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Mister r K.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Unknown Fighter one of those songs that really is the
public is gonna like it. I feel like we're gonna
get some good comments from this one. A great job
in the studio and a great message sent to your friends.
Talk about that before me.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Well that's a song. Once again. Back to my daughter
Clara Rose when she was at TCU. She went to
TCU and she was she was boxing. She liked to
kind of she liked she boxed some in high school
and then she went into TCU and she she didn't
(17:37):
have to really have a boxing program there, but she
was taking lessons from this kid, was a featherweight kid,
and he was really really good and he was doing
some really good stuff. And you know, I thought about
I was I was kind of remming this thing, thinking
about the good old days when she was there at TCU,
and I thought about this guy Tony who was this boxer,
(18:00):
and like how I don't really know what ever became
of him exactly, but I know that he was like,
you know, kind of a surprise to everybody because he
kind of came out of nowhere and it was one
of those one of those songs that once you start,
it just flowed. It just worked, And a lot of
times that's how really, you know, I can only speak
(18:23):
for myself, but I've heard this from other songwriters. Some
of their best songs just kind of flow out of
them like they've got a you know, a connection to
a higher power and they're they're connected with this great
moment of spirituality and and lyric ability and it all
(18:47):
comes together at one time. And you know, I'd say,
I don't want to diminish the song, and anybody took
me about thirty minutes to write that song?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Got true?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Tell yourself and not surprising. Hey, let's go back to
the nineties a little bit. I love nineties country, grew
up on it too, And two of the best songs
ever they got to reminisce and talk about too, which
of course is The Road Goes On Forever.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And one of my favorites sound there of my favorite towns,
I love it, Corpus, Christie Bay.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm sure these always are just fan favorites of shows
and looking back, definitely that kickstarted what's a wonderful career.
And those songs never get old to sing, right.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They do, and you know, they feel new every time
I play them, and every time I play my you know,
I get a different reaction. I always get good reactions.
But you know, there's different kinds of things that people
tell me, like after the show about you know that
they could relate to this particular thing or or that.
One of my favorite things about Corpus Christie Bay was
(19:45):
when I first put it out, I got a writer,
a journalist from the Chicago Herald, I believe, back when
we had print media a lot print media. He wrote
he wrote that up as probably the greatest saddest country
song that he'd ever heard. So I always thought, well,
(20:08):
I don't know if there's all that much pathos in
the Corpus Christie Bay, but I'm glad somebody felt like,
you know, there was a certain saddest to it. And
then like we were talking about the Unknown Fighter and
saying that that it all came at one time, that
one actually came in two parts. I wrote half of
it on my own, just sitting around in my little
(20:31):
hovel that I used to write in and then I
went into the studio to talk to the producer about,
you know, the songs that I was going to use
for the next record. And I played him all these songs,
and you know, I thought they were good songs, and
he says, well, you know, I don't think we have
(20:51):
an anchor song here. I said, listen. I don't mean
to be, you know, a smart ass or anything, but
let me say, this is a record. It's not a mall.
You know, I don't know what you're talking about. An
anchor song. He said, you know, you know, a career
song and a you know, a hit song or something.
I said, I said, okay, I kind of get your meaning.
(21:14):
So I said, listen, let's not And as a matter
of fact, what was going on was I lived in
Texas at the time, and I had driven to Nashville,
and you know, met this guy kind of on the fly,
and I was really just down to my last dollar. Literally,
I just didn't have any money whatsoever. And he suggested
that we put this project off about recording this record,
(21:37):
and I said, look, I just I can't afford this.
I just barely got up here. I said, look, it
was a Friday evening, and I said, look, give me
no Sunday and I'll come back with a hit for you.
And so I went back to my friend Robin Beresford's backyard.
(21:58):
She lived off a long belt, lived on Lombardi. Lombardi, yeah, Lombardi.
And I sat in her backyard on that Saturday and
I thought, all right, here's this song that I already
got a lot of, and I got it shaped up
and you know, maybe this is the song. So sat
there and strung along and then boom, you know, hit
(22:21):
me like a comment and I just finished out the
rest of the song, took him. Took the song to
the guy the next morning and said, all right, okay,
I think I got the song for you. So I
played two verses of this song. He said, stop right there,
that's the song. I said, well, I had two verses yesterday,
(22:41):
you know, or David wore yesterday. I could have just
made those for you. And he said, well, we got
the song now. I said, you don't want to hear
the rest of me? Said no, I know it's good.
I said, Drake, I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Our music comes together by telling stories that he never
know if it's going to be a hit. But in
the end, it does impact a lot of great country
music fans of air cond fence up there too as well. Again,
we gotta play some more music. Robert o' keen our
guests here at the backstage past KKTC True Country ninety
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of course out there iHeartRadio too. You can catch the
show and the sports Guys podcast dot Com powered by
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that very website, will be in Nashville, Tennessee the nineteenth
or the twenty first, a broadcaster from the clay Arie
Studios dclay Airy dot Com doing our show live there
at the Omni Hotel. Never know who we're gonna run into.
I'll tell you that Shannondoah, Daryl Worley and a whole
bunch of Roberts good friends are gonna be stopping buy
out there too. The Week of Country Radio Seminar out
there too. Time for I gotta go off the record
there ready for confetti. We'll take you back a little
(23:33):
bit here. Want of Robert's big hits out there KKTC
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Speaker 5 (23:57):
He Cato there. I know the time to blow excuse me, mister,
if you leave, I gotta go on on one morning
on the dead to dead. If Bob got a boma,
the law, my mama.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Kissed my cheecken sick.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I gotta go, waste some time stands to greet.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
They put me in and off the edge western to below.
I told him when I burnt that bridge, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Store the car, gotta go rob the hoidey hole outlet
methods on the run. I gotta go. I gotta go somewhere.
I gotta go. Waste the time stand again. I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Five coustar douce while three kids in a row, I
turned that diamond and do some spine.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
They tracked it down to the potato brother don't know.
I told them, the boy said, some mistake.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I gotta go. I gotta go somewhere. I gotta go.
Whete the time standing again.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
CoA seal up against my it. They turned the lights down. Law,
In case you didn't hear, I say, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
These are your very last word, sirs, nice and so
my last words on this planet were I gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Wete some time stands, I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I gotta go somewhere. I gotta go wee some time standing.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hey.
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Speaker 6 (27:15):
Tour playing the same.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Thank You to Me. I gotta known, Long Long Shoot.
If you're not bring my Mom go.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Right Hey, Yo.
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Speaker 3 (28:01):
I love this one.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You take it back all the way from the Ready
for Confetti album and I gotta go. And this uh
just told a story. And I was watching it on
YouTube today, just had some time, and I said, I'm
gonna go back and watch that music video lyric video,
and I got to watch it, have a good time.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I love jamming. This is my truck.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
This is a great song, So I wrote I wrote
this song. I was sitting in my backyard in Curbville, Texas,
and you have to take about eight steps down to
the backyard and sit on this this con at this
concrete pittnic table, and I'm strummling along. And I had
just written what I consider the start to, you know,
(28:38):
an opera that I've never finished that I'm really excited about.
And it's about a guy that's down in Patagonia and
he has created the greatest hamburger in the world, but
he can't find anybody to taste it or even tell
about it. And so he's screaming through the clouds and
to the mountains me I'm gonna yes. Okay. So that's
(29:02):
the title of the opera mea, but I guess so
I'm after that. I you know, I was on a
kind of roll, so I sat in it. I wrote
I gotta go and I wrote I Gotta go. And
about the time I finished that, I was pretty proud
of that one. I thought that was pretty solid. So
my girls, were young at the time, came down and
(29:23):
they walked down the steps and I saw him coming
and they had that look and their eyes like children
of the corn or something like girls only have, which
is like they want something from you, and you know
they're going to hit you with it as soon as
they just get close enough. And I just stopped them
right at the bottom of the stairs and said, stop
right there. I will honor any of your requests at
(29:46):
this point, however, I just want you to listen to
this song. And they went okay, and I said all right,
So played them a song, said what do you think
and they said, can we go to Tako Cossa?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I said, yeah, out here, just please get out here.
You know, So's you gotta be careful with children and
playing them songs. I used to people ask me a
lot of times, you know, you know, Robert, you ever
getting nervous, you know, when you get on stage, And
the fact is I don't. And however, there is one
place that I get nervous, and that's when I played
(30:20):
to like third and fourth graders in a third and
fourth grade class. It's just a nightmare because you can't
you know. It's like, first of all, you know, some
of my songs have a little bit of an adult theme,
or maybe they might have a like a blue word
here and there. So I'm always going through my mind going,
oh man, I just don't want to upset the teacher.
I don't want to freak these kids out. I gotta
(30:42):
be careful. So and like I'll play these songs and
you know, you just see these dull looks on their face,
or they're playing with their pencil, or they're pulling some
kid's hair over here, they're throwing a shoe or whatever,
and you just know you're losing your whole audience. It's
just mapping like to be a performer and just lose
your audience. And the only thing you can do at
this point, and this is just out to anybody if
(31:03):
they just wanted to hear this for a second, But
the only thing you can do is drop back and
punt and just play songs about pizza.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Sports, terminology, grand slam music, and sports right there, all
the artists use it to Hey, speaking of that too,
I'm gonna go to some rapid fire heat a little bit.
But uh, you know, we got just the end of
an NFL season. I know you've been a huge sports
fan for a long time too. I can't relate to
people that are Cowboy fans out there too. I feel
for them, but I'm not. But my wife is looking
back at it.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
But Brandon, not really. You know, I grew up in Houston, Texas,
never became a Cowboys fan. Really.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, hey, we got a team down here, the Houston
Texans that are starting to turn it around back to back.
Here is the Demiko Ryans, their playoffs. Talk about the
c J strout just what you've seen from the Texans.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
No, man, Well, you know, I'm I'm like also, I'm
an Aggie brand and so you know, we have learned,
you know, I mean from the time I was a
child all the way through the time I graduated from
A and M was you know, you know, our favorite,
our favorite saying is wait till next year. So you know,
(32:13):
with the Texans. You know that's it. Wait till next year. Oh,
wait on this year.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Basically, WAITI is here exactly right. Twenty twenty five is
some jobs. Never forget that too. Hey, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I love the Astros.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I love going to games over there, just having a
good time, having a beer and dog stuff like that too.
It's it's one of the festive things you could do
as a baseball fan too.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well. You know, you know that that Minute Made Park
is a great park. I love it. I love the
you know, min of mag Park, and we we used
to play some shows there at Minute Maybe Park. As
a matter of fact, somebody's asked me today, had I
ever met Jimmy Buffett. And the only time I ever
met Jimmy Buffett was we played a show with Jimmy
(32:53):
Buffett in Minute May Park, as a matter of fact,
and it was a big, big, big moment. But other
times we just we were friends with some of the
people in the astros and we got to play several
shows that were you know, they were connected with the
game or the night before the game or something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Always fun to get over there and enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I got to ask you about this one Gringo Honeymoon
one of my favorite Robert Earl Keene songs.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Always love this one. Give me a little backstory of
that one.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Gringo Honeymoon came from a conversation I had with the guy,
a stranger that I met at the at the river
Walk in San Antonio, Texas. I was standing on the
landing and this guy comes up to me and says, hey,
how's it going. I said fine, I mean we just
started talking stuff. What you do? I said, well, I'm
(33:47):
actually waiting for my wife who's over there at the
mall and she's doing some shoppings. He says, you live
here in San Antonio? I said not really. He says,
well where are you from? And say, well, we are
from up in the hill country a little bit. He said.
He said, so you're just down here in San Antonio
for that afternoon or something. I said, no, not really.
I said, we are going to go out to Big
(34:07):
Ben and have about, you know, ten days out there
in Big Ben and just see the whole Big Ben area,
see some friends that we know out there in alpine.
And he said, well, listen, when you get out there,
here's what you need to do. And he gave me
these directions to through Big Ben down to the Rio
(34:27):
Grande River, where you get a there's a guy in
a rowboat down there, and you pay him a couple
of bucks and he rows across the river. And then
you take a donkey up to this little town called Bokias.
The donkey rides about two miles or something, and he says,
and I promise you, I promise you that if you
(34:48):
do this, you'll write a song about it. Now backing
up in a minute, or just like in the world
of singer songwriters, to out every other songwriter out there,
there are always somebody coming up to you and going, oh,
I had this great dog. His name is Babo, and
Babo is the best dog in the whole world. And look,
(35:10):
I just love you to meet Bobo, because if you
met Babo, you would write a song about it. Or
you know, I got this great old car. I've at
it forever and I wrote it all, I used it
all the way through college, and you would write a
song about it. And you know what, I just go, yeah, yeah, sure, okay, yeah, fine,
you bet I'll write your song.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
But I just never had any intention of really latching
onto any of those ideas, and this guy did say
exactly that says, you'll write a song about it, So
you know, I took him up on his advice. I
talked my wife into hers, said, you know, I think
this would be interesting, and we went there and just
had the most colorful, most memorable day of my life.
(35:51):
And when I got back, I thought, Damn, that guy
wasn't mine. I'm gonna write a song about this. So yeah,
Like I fictionalize a lot of stuff, I take a
lot of stuff in my own life and that business
to write a song, But on that one, I really
decided to take the journalistic approach and really take it
(36:11):
from A to Z, you know, from the beginning to
the very end. And and it was and it was
like there was a new revelation as far as me
for songwriting about actually just writing exactly what happened to
you on some particular night or some weekend or something
like that. And you know, I've used it ever since.
(36:33):
I've used some of that journalistic approach ever since. So
Greendo Honeymoon has paid off in spades and so many ways.
There's so many people that like the song. But like
you said before, it's one of those songs I never
get tired of when I play.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
No Doubt too again, those stories road goes on forever.
I can use that term for many minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
There you go, I'll ask you about You've traveled so
many places the Robert you know in your time as
a musician, singer, songwriter.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Favorite foods. I'm sure barbecue Texas never gets old, and
of course you go to Nashville.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I love jum I love jumble, I love doing I
love One of the things great about Louisiana is like
you can go to a place that sells Louisiana food
or creole food or whatever, but it never tastes like
it does in Louisiana. So when you're in Louisiana, man,
the jumble eye knock you out.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You know, sure, will Hey give me the toppings on.
I'm a stranger and just a crazy person for pizza
out there? What toppings go on the ri e K pizza?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Man, I'm a purist when it comes to that. I'm
talking about Ray's Original in New York City. Just give
me a cheese pizza, thin crust tease pizza Ray's Original.
Every time in that movie, along came Dolly where Philip
Seymour Hoffman squeezes the pizza and the grease off of
there so he gets more grease, you know. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The better.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But to try the one in New York You're recommended
there too. My friend love to get up there and
definitely try and raise in New York City too. All right,
had you never been a working musician, what other career
path would you have taken?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
You know, it have to be something outdoors. I'm totally
an outdoors guy. I'm outdoors is not just like an outdoorsman.
I just like being outdoors, you know, So it would
have to be something along the lines of Okay, I'd say,
you know, one of those kind of park rangers that
(38:34):
you know, documents bird flight, that would be good.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I like that good stuff. We always need those out
there too.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Check out the latest projects again Robert L. Keen dot com.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And of course out there always the new Western Chill
digitally released album to at the same time, and of
course the storybook out there you guys, the songbook. Check
it out, all the great projects merchandise and catch him
on the road or sitting near you.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Robert L. Keen dot com. Backslash tour.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Make sure you get those tickets out in Los Angeles
and you're in the area out there, come by and
say hi, Robert, appreciate the time here on the Backstage Past,
my friend, continue success going forward. Appreciate all the contributions
to country music. An Americana, great writer and a legend
in Texas country. Godspeed, and we appreciate you joining us
here on the show.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Hey, it's back at you man. I appreciate it, and
have a wonderful Valentine's Day next Friday.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
That is coming up.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We got to get the misses something nice out there
for all the husbands to take care of the locks
up there too. Yeah, we're back with more great music
here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine again broadcasting
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Speaker 3 (39:45):
Until then, God, God blessed, take care. We'll see soon.
Speaker 12 (39:48):
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Speaker 3 (39:59):
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Hi, this is Robert roy Keane, Texas country artist Robert
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Today's Best Country Mex.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I told you guys, we had a great one today
and of course one of the all time greats Texas
country music legend, Robert Earlkeen here to the backstage Pass,
mister r e K.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Doing very well, Brandon. I hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And it sure is. My friend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Always good to talk music, and I want to start
with your podcast, the Americana Podcasts out there on all
the streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. I
love listening to this show because sometimes I'm just so
kind of tuned in out there too to a lot
of the great questions of singers and songwriters out there.
You guys have had this thing going for a while.
You had some amazing talent on there, and it's probably
(01:06):
a little bit different from being I guess the interviewer
to the interview e from some times. But talk about
just the Americana podcast, how it got started, and just
how much fun you're having with this project.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
My daughter is not a musician, but she's a music officionados.
She knows everything from jazz, metal to hip hop to country,
and she's an encyclopedia of music, and you know, she's
always pushing me to, you know, get into the twenty
first century. So about five years ago she said that
(01:38):
we ought to do a podcast and I was like,
you know, how much work does and she said, she said, well,
it's gonna be worth it, Dad. So I said, okay.
So we got together and she produces it and I'm
the interviewer. And like you said earlier, the going from
the beat being the interview e to the interviewer, I'll
tell you that was a steep, steep Lerman learning curve
(02:00):
for me. I've been on that side of the been
on that side, on my side of the microphone for
so many years and to get on your side, Brandon,
the microphone was like a you know, you just want
to scream about half the time, like, I don't know
what to do now, I don't know. I hope I
don't sound stupid. So but we just pretty much interview
(02:26):
singer songwriters, mostly singer songwriters, musicians every once in a
while somebody from the industry, and uh and after a while,
I just settled into it because it was just, you know,
it was interesting to me to be able to talk
to so many really great artists that I talked to
and actually get them to tell me their process and
(02:49):
get them to like, you know, explain their whole you know,
year in year out, as far as touring goes, and
you know, how they do in the markets such as
television and and this series Bonanza that's going on, and uh,
you know, just you know, after a while, you realize
it's not just the learning curve, it's a learning platform.
(03:12):
So I learned so much during the Americana plododcast.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know, there's so much great talent you've got to
interview it. So have I here on the show. Both
the Just Country Music and Americana used to work for
K and VT and the Broncos up there the Americana
Station for a few years. Loved it up there too,
and got to go several of your performances out there.
Just talk about the talent these days, both in a
male female category and kind of who you're you're digging
right now, who's the new artists kind of that are
you know making waves out there for you male female?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well there, there there are so many. I mean, as
you well know, Brandon, there are just so many. It's
it's kind of hard to keep up with one lady
that's been around a little a little while, but I
think she's really making some real strides, particularly in the
Texas country music genre. Katie Offering has done some shows
(04:02):
with that with us lately. And also I've known Katie
for several years, and you know, she just started out
like playing the fiddle with people, and she's a real
accomplished musician, but she's become an incredibly accomplished performer. So
and Wright's really good songs. She's one of my favorites.
(04:23):
We're doing a show, and he's been around a little
while in the country of music scene, but I've gotten
where I really do like his stuff. Red Sheehan just
really really good. And you know, you know, of course,
all my friends that are still still running around going crazy,
like Reckless Kelly or Randy Rogers, those kind of people
(04:46):
are still doing some really great stuff these days. So
there's no end to how many good artists you can
find these days. I just heard one from my friend
up in Kansas City, some young lady, Kelly Hunt, and
I just got a piece of her music, and she
(05:07):
was really cool. I really enjoyed her. Just I don't know,
just you could just make a list from here to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Sure good, no doubt. And of course you guys gonna
be on a big headlining tour for most of the
spring of that. Key stop is gonna be in Los
Angeles with a good friend, Tyler Childers at the Hollywood Bowl,
and of course many dates out there. Willie Nelson, of course, Turnpike,
Red Rocks talk about this. It's still full tour listing
out there too, as well.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Robert L.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Keen dot com backslash Tour talk about this and always
exciting to see you on the road.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know, I retired a couple of years ago, in
twenty two, and you know, after a long period of
just sitting around. You know, I thought maybe, like I
could become a woodworker, and I realized that that was
not meant to be. And I didn't have anything to
(05:57):
do but pet my two cats, handsome and ran some
and my dog Roadie, and found out that you know, like,
you know, my life was meant to not only be
on the road and play songs for people, but you know,
keep creating and without being on the road. For some reason,
I kind of dried up in the created field. So,
(06:19):
you know, back at it again and feel much better
about it. I know I made some real promises about
like I'll never come back. I'll never come back, but
you know, life happens.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Does happen, no doubt about it too. I love that
you guys digitally released that really cool album Western Chill.
This was really cool June seventh. A lot of cool
things on this, some great songs out there talk about
just this project and overall the body work in my front.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, one of my absolute favorite things I've ever done
was the Western Chill project because that was in right
right at the beginning of COVID and you know, my
band had been with me something years and they were
all you know, working with me, and I didn't want
(07:05):
to let them go, and I didn't want to cut,
you know, slash a bunch of things just because we
didn't know what was going to go on during then.
So I kept them with me. And you know, after
a couple of months and no one was sick or anything,
we started rehearsing. And I have a ranch out just
a little bit in north of Medina, Texas, and they'd
(07:27):
come out there and we'd spend the weekend rehearsing. After
a few weeks, I thought, you know, I was sitting
outside outside this place I called the Snake Barn, which
I turned into a video studio and recording studio, and
I was out there by myself and I made up
this song Western Chill, and then I so inspired I
(07:48):
kept going. I wrote about I don't know, I think
that was my all, my personal best, as they say
in the sports world. My my pb was that night
where I wrote five songs in that one night. And
when those guys showed up for rehearsal the next time,
I said, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
this song Western Chill. I'm gonna play it for you,
(08:10):
and I want you guys to think about this song,
and I want you to bring me any of the
songs that you think fit kind of with this song.
And all of my guys, you know, write songs as well.
They're great writers, they're great players, you know, good guys,
great musicians. And but what I was surprised at was
that when they brought me the songs that they felt fit,
(08:30):
they just fit perfectly. And so we started rehearsing those
songs and rehearsing some of these other songs that I
wrote that very same night, and we had a whole
album full of recording. All of a sudden, it just
was like it was like magical. It all fit. We
(08:51):
had plenty of material. We sat down and rehearsed that
whole thing as a record a couple of times, and
then I got my friend Cameron Gott lives in Walksahatchie
that does a lot of photography and videography, and had
him come down there in video tape our debut as
(09:11):
far as playing that whole record at one time at
the Snake Bar, and guys played great. I think we
did two takes. The one take we just we just
barely missed it. The second take we did it perfectly.
So we printed up LPs and made this big box
set of an LP DVD, a songbook, and a graphic novel.
(09:39):
All comes in one big box weighs four pounds, and
we put that out for a little while and then
decided to kind of back up because it was still
we were still kind of in the throes of that
whole COVID thing, So we waited a little while, and
so finally in June seventh, we put it all out
digitally and it's had a really great response. But other
(10:04):
than that, other than just the response, it's been one
of my favorite projects because it truly was a banned
inclusive project where it was all of us got together,
all of us got to practice together, all of us
acted like, you know, we were just kids on a porch,
like we all started out, you know, just jamming, and
so this is a little really cool record that we
(10:28):
all jammed together and there was a great bonding experience
that we hadn't had in years and years, and so
for my money, it was one of my most heartfelt
efforts ever. And you know, I believe that the record
itself reflects that. If you sit down and listen to
(10:49):
it and it's exactly as advertised. It's very chill. It's just,
you know, easy to listen to, easy to listen to
from the first track the very.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Last track, that title too as well.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We're gonna chill here on the backstage passer now play
Little Robert Rokane music Unknown Fighter Exclusive here kk t
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Speaker 5 (11:30):
And jeezus Tom Gym the benal Time Inside City Jam.
The Unknown by bullops into the gym Texas Cone and
(11:51):
is in for at the bell Sunday love his name.
It fills with davy punches, land and didn't.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Very God.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Another man goes down down grounds, the standing, small, dark
(12:32):
face and smoking, plain dark sideware house. I've seen better
than night me an five steps into the man.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
The darm Man is dangerous modern flags, some boy that
so well loved nag.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
He kneels it, Dabby fun cheese.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Man day.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
We card.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Another man goes down down gun he still.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Standing, turn of courch. God knows why.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
To contender will never make the show now the unnumbad
this begain in the eye of the chappion. Imagine the
blow somebody that said, well knows the god expat Live band.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Dozen rather the champions stand.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Still stand.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Stand Here you go.
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Come enter.
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Hi, guys, this is twenty here and you're listening to
the Backstage Pass on True Country ninety nine point nine
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
Robert O'Keane here on the Backstage Pass Unknown Fighter Again.
Broadcaster from the clay Air Studios, d clay Airy dot
com kk t C True Country ninety nine point nine
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some hot chocolate out there too. Wish I was there
with you guys in Tallas, New Mexico. Here we got
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Mister r K.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Unknown Fighter one of those songs that really is the
public is gonna like it. I feel like we're gonna
get some good comments from this one. A great job
in the studio and a great message sent to your friends.
Talk about that before me.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Well that's a song. Once again. Back to my daughter
Clara Rose when she was at TCU. She went to
TCU and she was she was boxing. She liked to
kind of she liked she boxed some in high school
and then she went into TCU and she she didn't
(17:37):
have to really have a boxing program there, but she
was taking lessons from this kid, was a featherweight kid,
and he was really really good and he was doing
some really good stuff. And you know, I thought about
I was I was kind of remming this thing, thinking
about the good old days when she was there at TCU,
and I thought about this guy Tony who was this boxer,
(18:00):
and like how I don't really know what ever became
of him exactly, but I know that he was like,
you know, kind of a surprise to everybody because he
kind of came out of nowhere and it was one
of those one of those songs that once you start,
it just flowed. It just worked, And a lot of
times that's how really, you know, I can only speak
(18:23):
for myself, but I've heard this from other songwriters. Some
of their best songs just kind of flow out of
them like they've got a you know, a connection to
a higher power and they're they're connected with this great
moment of spirituality and and lyric ability and it all
(18:47):
comes together at one time. And you know, I'd say,
I don't want to diminish the song, and anybody took
me about thirty minutes to write that song?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Got true?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Tell yourself and not surprising. Hey, let's go back to
the nineties a little bit. I love nineties country, grew
up on it too, And two of the best songs
ever they got to reminisce and talk about too, which
of course is The Road Goes On Forever.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And one of my favorites sound there of my favorite towns,
I love it, Corpus, Christie Bay.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm sure these always are just fan favorites of shows
and looking back, definitely that kickstarted what's a wonderful career.
And those songs never get old to sing, right.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
They do, and you know, they feel new every time
I play them, and every time I play my you know,
I get a different reaction. I always get good reactions.
But you know, there's different kinds of things that people
tell me, like after the show about you know that
they could relate to this particular thing or or that.
One of my favorite things about Corpus Christie Bay was
(19:45):
when I first put it out, I got a writer,
a journalist from the Chicago Herald, I believe, back when
we had print media a lot print media. He wrote
he wrote that up as probably the greatest saddest country
song that he'd ever heard. So I always thought, well,
(20:08):
I don't know if there's all that much pathos in
the Corpus Christie Bay, but I'm glad somebody felt like,
you know, there was a certain saddest to it. And
then like we were talking about the Unknown Fighter and
saying that that it all came at one time, that
one actually came in two parts. I wrote half of
it on my own, just sitting around in my little
(20:31):
hovel that I used to write in and then I
went into the studio to talk to the producer about,
you know, the songs that I was going to use
for the next record. And I played him all these songs,
and you know, I thought they were good songs, and
he says, well, you know, I don't think we have
(20:51):
an anchor song here. I said, listen. I don't mean
to be, you know, a smart ass or anything, but
let me say, this is a record. It's not a mall.
You know, I don't know what you're talking about. An
anchor song. He said, you know, you know, a career
song and a you know, a hit song or something.
I said, I said, okay, I kind of get your meaning.
(21:14):
So I said, listen, let's not And as a matter
of fact, what was going on was I lived in
Texas at the time, and I had driven to Nashville,
and you know, met this guy kind of on the fly,
and I was really just down to my last dollar. Literally,
I just didn't have any money whatsoever. And he suggested
that we put this project off about recording this record,
(21:37):
and I said, look, I just I can't afford this.
I just barely got up here. I said, look, it
was a Friday evening, and I said, look, give me
no Sunday and I'll come back with a hit for you.
And so I went back to my friend Robin Beresford's backyard.
(21:58):
She lived off a long belt, lived on Lombardi. Lombardi, yeah, Lombardi.
And I sat in her backyard on that Saturday and
I thought, all right, here's this song that I already
got a lot of, and I got it shaped up
and you know, maybe this is the song. So sat
there and strung along and then boom, you know, hit
(22:21):
me like a comment and I just finished out the
rest of the song, took him. Took the song to
the guy the next morning and said, all right, okay,
I think I got the song for you. So I
played two verses of this song. He said, stop right there,
that's the song. I said, well, I had two verses yesterday,
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you know, or David wore yesterday. I could have just
made those for you. And he said, well, we got
the song now. I said, you don't want to hear
the rest of me? Said no, I know it's good.
I said, Drake, I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Our music comes together by telling stories that he never
know if it's going to be a hit. But in
the end, it does impact a lot of great country
music fans of air cond fence up there too as well. Again,
we gotta play some more music. Robert o' keen our
guests here at the backstage past KKTC True Country ninety
nine point out out there at TAUS, New Mexico, and
of course out there iHeartRadio too. You can catch the
show and the sports Guys podcast dot Com powered by
(23:12):
that very website, will be in Nashville, Tennessee the nineteenth
or the twenty first, a broadcaster from the clay Arie
Studios dclay Airy dot Com doing our show live there
at the Omni Hotel. Never know who we're gonna run into.
I'll tell you that Shannondoah, Daryl Worley and a whole
bunch of Roberts good friends are gonna be stopping buy
out there too. The Week of Country Radio Seminar out
there too. Time for I gotta go off the record
there ready for confetti. We'll take you back a little
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Speaker 5 (23:57):
He Cato there. I know the time to blow excuse me, mister,
if you leave, I gotta go on on one morning
on the dead to dead. If Bob got a boma,
the law, my mama.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Kissed my cheecken sick.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I gotta go, waste some time stands to greet.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
They put me in and off the edge western to below.
I told him when I burnt that bridge, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Store the car, gotta go rob the hoidey hole outlet
methods on the run. I gotta go. I gotta go somewhere.
I gotta go. Waste the time stand again. I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Five coustar douce while three kids in a row, I
turned that diamond and do some spine.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
They tracked it down to the potato brother don't know.
I told them, the boy said, some mistake.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I gotta go. I gotta go somewhere. I gotta go.
Whete the time standing again.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
CoA seal up against my it. They turned the lights down. Law,
In case you didn't hear, I say, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
These are your very last word, sirs, nice and so
my last words on this planet were I gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Wete some time stands, I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I gotta go somewhere. I gotta go wee some time standing.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hey.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
This is Court Shill recording artist Joe Nichols, and you're
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Speaker 9 (26:53):
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Speaker 3 (27:01):
Again.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
That is the Kadan Gordon Show dot.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Com and broadcasting from the clay Airy Studios. That's part
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Speaker 6 (27:15):
Tour playing the same.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Thank You to Me. I gotta known, Long Long Shoot.
If you're not bring my Mom go.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Right Hey, Yo.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
This is recording artist Dusty Black and you're listening to
the Backstage Past podcast exclusively on kk t C True
Country ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You get back here on the Backstage Pass Robert l.
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nine point nine to my friend.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I love this one.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You take it back all the way from the Ready
for Confetti album and I gotta go. And this uh
just told a story. And I was watching it on
YouTube today, just had some time, and I said, I'm
gonna go back and watch that music video lyric video,
and I got to watch it, have a good time.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I love jamming. This is my truck.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
This is a great song, So I wrote I wrote
this song. I was sitting in my backyard in Curbville, Texas,
and you have to take about eight steps down to
the backyard and sit on this this con at this
concrete pittnic table, and I'm strummling along. And I had
just written what I consider the start to, you know,
(28:38):
an opera that I've never finished that I'm really excited about.
And it's about a guy that's down in Patagonia and
he has created the greatest hamburger in the world, but
he can't find anybody to taste it or even tell
about it. And so he's screaming through the clouds and
to the mountains me I'm gonna yes. Okay. So that's
(29:02):
the title of the opera mea, but I guess so
I'm after that. I you know, I was on a
kind of roll, so I sat in it. I wrote
I gotta go and I wrote I Gotta go. And
about the time I finished that, I was pretty proud
of that one. I thought that was pretty solid. So
my girls, were young at the time, came down and
(29:23):
they walked down the steps and I saw him coming
and they had that look and their eyes like children
of the corn or something like girls only have, which
is like they want something from you, and you know
they're going to hit you with it as soon as
they just get close enough. And I just stopped them
right at the bottom of the stairs and said, stop
right there. I will honor any of your requests at
(29:46):
this point, however, I just want you to listen to
this song. And they went okay, and I said all right,
So played them a song, said what do you think
and they said, can we go to Tako Cossa?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I said, yeah, out here, just please get out here.
You know, So's you gotta be careful with children and
playing them songs. I used to people ask me a
lot of times, you know, you know, Robert, you ever
getting nervous, you know, when you get on stage, And
the fact is I don't. And however, there is one
place that I get nervous, and that's when I played
(30:20):
to like third and fourth graders in a third and
fourth grade class. It's just a nightmare because you can't
you know. It's like, first of all, you know, some
of my songs have a little bit of an adult theme,
or maybe they might have a like a blue word
here and there. So I'm always going through my mind going,
oh man, I just don't want to upset the teacher.
I don't want to freak these kids out. I gotta
(30:42):
be careful. So and like I'll play these songs and
you know, you just see these dull looks on their face,
or they're playing with their pencil, or they're pulling some
kid's hair over here, they're throwing a shoe or whatever,
and you just know you're losing your whole audience. It's
just mapping like to be a performer and just lose
your audience. And the only thing you can do at
this point, and this is just out to anybody if
(31:03):
they just wanted to hear this for a second, But
the only thing you can do is drop back and
punt and just play songs about pizza.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Sports, terminology, grand slam music, and sports right there, all
the artists use it to Hey, speaking of that too,
I'm gonna go to some rapid fire heat a little bit.
But uh, you know, we got just the end of
an NFL season. I know you've been a huge sports
fan for a long time too. I can't relate to
people that are Cowboy fans out there too. I feel
for them, but I'm not. But my wife is looking
back at it.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
But Brandon, not really. You know, I grew up in Houston, Texas,
never became a Cowboys fan. Really.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, hey, we got a team down here, the Houston
Texans that are starting to turn it around back to back.
Here is the Demiko Ryans, their playoffs. Talk about the
c J strout just what you've seen from the Texans.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
No, man, Well, you know, I'm I'm like also, I'm
an Aggie brand and so you know, we have learned,
you know, I mean from the time I was a
child all the way through the time I graduated from
A and M was you know, you know, our favorite,
our favorite saying is wait till next year. So you know,
(32:13):
with the Texans. You know that's it. Wait till next year. Oh,
wait on this year.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Basically, WAITI is here exactly right. Twenty twenty five is
some jobs. Never forget that too. Hey, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I love the Astros.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I love going to games over there, just having a
good time, having a beer and dog stuff like that too.
It's it's one of the festive things you could do
as a baseball fan too.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well. You know, you know that that Minute Made Park
is a great park. I love it. I love the
you know, min of mag Park, and we we used
to play some shows there at Minute Maybe Park. As
a matter of fact, somebody's asked me today, had I
ever met Jimmy Buffett. And the only time I ever
met Jimmy Buffett was we played a show with Jimmy
(32:53):
Buffett in Minute May Park, as a matter of fact,
and it was a big, big, big moment. But other
times we just we were friends with some of the
people in the astros and we got to play several
shows that were you know, they were connected with the
game or the night before the game or something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Always fun to get over there and enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I got to ask you about this one Gringo Honeymoon
one of my favorite Robert Earl Keene songs.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Always love this one. Give me a little backstory of
that one.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Gringo Honeymoon came from a conversation I had with the guy,
a stranger that I met at the at the river
Walk in San Antonio, Texas. I was standing on the
landing and this guy comes up to me and says, hey,
how's it going. I said fine, I mean we just
started talking stuff. What you do? I said, well, I'm
(33:47):
actually waiting for my wife who's over there at the
mall and she's doing some shoppings. He says, you live
here in San Antonio? I said not really. He says,
well where are you from? And say, well, we are
from up in the hill country a little bit. He said.
He said, so you're just down here in San Antonio
for that afternoon or something. I said, no, not really.
I said, we are going to go out to Big
(34:07):
Ben and have about, you know, ten days out there
in Big Ben and just see the whole Big Ben area,
see some friends that we know out there in alpine.
And he said, well, listen, when you get out there,
here's what you need to do. And he gave me
these directions to through Big Ben down to the Rio
(34:27):
Grande River, where you get a there's a guy in
a rowboat down there, and you pay him a couple
of bucks and he rows across the river. And then
you take a donkey up to this little town called Bokias.
The donkey rides about two miles or something, and he says,
and I promise you, I promise you that if you
(34:48):
do this, you'll write a song about it. Now backing
up in a minute, or just like in the world
of singer songwriters, to out every other songwriter out there,
there are always somebody coming up to you and going, oh,
I had this great dog. His name is Babo, and
Babo is the best dog in the whole world. And look,
(35:10):
I just love you to meet Bobo, because if you
met Babo, you would write a song about it. Or
you know, I got this great old car. I've at
it forever and I wrote it all, I used it
all the way through college, and you would write a
song about it. And you know what, I just go, yeah, yeah, sure, okay, yeah, fine,
you bet I'll write your song.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
But I just never had any intention of really latching
onto any of those ideas, and this guy did say
exactly that says, you'll write a song about it, So
you know, I took him up on his advice. I
talked my wife into hers, said, you know, I think
this would be interesting, and we went there and just
had the most colorful, most memorable day of my life.
(35:51):
And when I got back, I thought, Damn, that guy
wasn't mine. I'm gonna write a song about this. So yeah,
Like I fictionalize a lot of stuff, I take a
lot of stuff in my own life and that business
to write a song, But on that one, I really
decided to take the journalistic approach and really take it
(36:11):
from A to Z, you know, from the beginning to
the very end. And and it was and it was
like there was a new revelation as far as me
for songwriting about actually just writing exactly what happened to
you on some particular night or some weekend or something
like that. And you know, I've used it ever since.
(36:33):
I've used some of that journalistic approach ever since. So
Greendo Honeymoon has paid off in spades and so many ways.
There's so many people that like the song. But like
you said before, it's one of those songs I never
get tired of when I play.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
No Doubt too again, those stories road goes on forever.
I can use that term for many minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
There you go, I'll ask you about You've traveled so
many places the Robert you know in your time as
a musician, singer, songwriter.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Favorite foods. I'm sure barbecue Texas never gets old, and
of course you go to Nashville.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I love jum I love jumble, I love doing I
love One of the things great about Louisiana is like
you can go to a place that sells Louisiana food
or creole food or whatever, but it never tastes like
it does in Louisiana. So when you're in Louisiana, man,
the jumble eye knock you out.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You know, sure, will Hey give me the toppings on.
I'm a stranger and just a crazy person for pizza
out there? What toppings go on the ri e K pizza?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Man, I'm a purist when it comes to that. I'm
talking about Ray's Original in New York City. Just give
me a cheese pizza, thin crust tease pizza Ray's Original.
Every time in that movie, along came Dolly where Philip
Seymour Hoffman squeezes the pizza and the grease off of
there so he gets more grease, you know. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The better.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But to try the one in New York You're recommended
there too. My friend love to get up there and
definitely try and raise in New York City too. All right,
had you never been a working musician, what other career
path would you have taken?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
You know, it have to be something outdoors. I'm totally
an outdoors guy. I'm outdoors is not just like an outdoorsman.
I just like being outdoors, you know, So it would
have to be something along the lines of Okay, I'd say,
you know, one of those kind of park rangers that
(38:34):
you know, documents bird flight, that would be good.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I like that good stuff. We always need those out
there too.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Check out the latest projects again Robert L. Keen dot com.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And of course out there always the new Western Chill
digitally released album to at the same time, and of
course the storybook out there you guys, the songbook. Check
it out, all the great projects merchandise and catch him
on the road or sitting near you.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Robert L. Keen dot com. Backslash tour.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Make sure you get those tickets out in Los Angeles
and you're in the area out there, come by and
say hi, Robert, appreciate the time here on the Backstage Past,
my friend, continue success going forward. Appreciate all the contributions
to country music. An Americana, great writer and a legend
in Texas country. Godspeed, and we appreciate you joining us
here on the show.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Hey, it's back at you man. I appreciate it, and
have a wonderful Valentine's Day next Friday.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
That is coming up.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We got to get the misses something nice out there
for all the husbands to take care of the locks
up there too. Yeah, we're back with more great music
here KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine again broadcasting
from the clay Airy Studios, the clay Airy dot Com
and presented by our friends over at the Cavan Gordon
Show dot com. Today's Best Country mex out there too,
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Speaker 3 (39:45):
Until then, God, God blessed, take care. We'll see soon.
Speaker 12 (39:48):
Hey, everybody is Nashville recording artist Chad Brock and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Past Podcast powered by
the Sports Guys podcast exclusively on KKTC.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
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