Robert Earl Keen Dude is popular with country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd, jam band fans, alt-country fans, soccer moms (sorry, Sarah), shitkicker types, and Texas fetishists. Hell, dude even looks like The Dude, and he certainly still abides by a lot of people’s math. Me? I never got it. He’s not really folky enough for folk, jammy enough for a jam band, or alternative enough for alt-country (whatever that is – R.I.P., No Depression). Granted, he is reasonably funny at times, yes, and he is a decent storyteller. Then again, I ain’t lining up to go see Dane Cook anytime soon, either. Neighborhood Theatre (Timothy C. Davis)
This article appears in Oct 14-21, 2008.
for your musical soul, i am praying.
What Yoda said.
Repent now, for the time is near.