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艺人

Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

语种

英语

厂牌

Koch

发行时间

2005年05月10日

专辑类别

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专辑介绍

by Mark Deming

Robert Earl Keen, Jr. has built a career out of making albums that straddle the line between the thoughtful and the comic, and twenty years into the game he isn't about to stop now -- nor should he, since he's still quite good at it. What I Really Mean, Keen's ninth studio set, typically veers back and forth between compelling meditations on life and love (such as the sweeping album opener &For Love,& the impassioned &The Wild Ones,& and the lonesome travelogue of the title cut), and surreal comic vignettes which show that his sense of humor is getting a bit stranger with the passage of time. &The Great Hank& imagines meeting a risen Hank Williams as he performs in drag in Pennsylvania; &Mr. Wolf and Mamabear& takes an old fairy tale into wholly unexpected directions, and &A Border Tragedy& is easily the oddest of his many tunes about traveling through Mexico (with a beautiful but wildly incongruous cameo from Ray Price). If there's news here, it's that after years of being regarded as a songwriter who isn't much of a singer, Keen has been gaining an impressive new control of his instrument, and What I Really Mean features some of his most compelling performances to date, especially on a superb cover of Jimmie Driftwood's &Long Chain,& and the production by longtime associate Rich Brotherton shows him off to fine advantage. In some respects, What I Really Mean is &another Robert Earl Keen album,& but it's also another good one, and shows he's still one of the most viable voices in the Texas singer/songwriter community.