Robert Earl Keen

Right before his performance with Tyler Childers at the legendary Hollywood Bowl, Robert Earl Keen sat down with Shooter Jennings for an epic on-location episode of Americana Podcast: The 51st State. Recorded at Jennings’s Los Angeles studio, Keen and the GRAMMY-winning producer talked about the historical differences between LA and Nashville “country music” and classic A-list session musicians.

Robert Earl Keen has been dubbed a lot of things in his sixty-nine years, but he’s most proud of the moniker “Texan”—more specifically, a Texan from Kerrville. And now more than ever, in response to the July 4th flooding in Kerr County, Keen’s Hill Country community needs a helping hand.

Leave it up to beloved Texas songwriter Robert Earl Keen to ensure that a party never ends. This year, his now-legendary Fan Appreciation Day will roll all the way through Labor Day weekend with three whole nights at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, Texas. “Fan Appreciation Day is my favorite weekend of the year,” says Keen.

Americana Podcast: The 51st State is back for a new season with host and Americana Pioneer, Robert Earl Keen, digging into fellow musicians’ points of view, histories, creative processes, successes, failures, and everything in between. Only this season, the format of Americana Podcast has evolved to include a video component and some bonus performance footage, to boot—not to mention a venture outside of purely musician-based interviews.

Get ready to kick up some dust and dance the weekend away—Fairwell Festival 2025 is riding into Redmond, Oregon, on July 18–19, and it promises to be the summer’s most unforgettable musical roundup. Taking place against the breathtaking backdrop of Central Oregon, this two-day celebration will unite a one-of-a-kind lineup of country and Americana heavy-hitters, rising stars, and a few surprise guests guaranteed to spark your wanderlust for wide-open spaces and good times.

AEG Presents is thrilled to announce two unforgettable evenings with Turnpike Troubadours at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. Taking place on Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9, 2025, these highly anticipated shows will showcase the band’s signature blend of rousing country, rock, and red dirt grit in one of the most breathtaking live music venues in the world.

Hot on the heels of his Lights, Camera, Christmas! Tour, Texas music legend Robert Earl Keen is announcing another small run of shows slated for March of 2025. Un-retired and touring a little more conservatively at sixty-eight years old—read all about that from Rolling Stone—Keen and his longtime band are tighter than ever and raising crowd after crowd to their feet to sing and dance along to his now-timeless catalog of songs. Turns out that the road does go on forever.

Lights, Camera, Christmas!: Not your usual holiday show with fake snow and false feel-goods. This year's theme takes its cue from classic films beloved by the Keen family: Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, and more. REK and the band have worked up familiar songs from these films and sprinkled in a few of their favorite holiday tunes for good measure.

Robert Earl Keen is pleased to announce the addition of a Spartanburg, SC show to the Lights, Camera, Christmas! holiday tour which will take him and the band throughout the Southeast this December for a dozen shows. The Robert Earl Keen Band will wrap up the run in Texas with two nights at Austin’s famed Moody Theater, followed by the grand finale just before Christmas Day in REK HQ, Kerrville, Texas.

For fans of Robert Earl Keen, what could possibly be more fun than being one of the lucky ones in attendance for the Texas legend’s annual Fan Appreciation Day show at Floore’s Country Store? Well, the man himself simply figures that two days might tip the scales. This Labor Day weekend, September 1st and 2nd, Keen and friends will roll his Fan Appreciation Day model into the first ever Robert Earl Keen’s Annual Homecoming Weekend, hosted and emceed by Storme Warren.

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