Floore’s is my favorite because it reminds me a lot of the old open-air dance places that you’d see. Floore’s Country Store outside San Antonio all the time. Robert, you li ve in the Hill Country, in Kerrville, and you guys both still play some classic Texas honky-tonks. Here, collect the money at the door.” I said, “I’m collecting the money at the door and playing the gig?” You know, you’ve got to put on every hat possible in the music business to stay in the music business. I had a promoter one time come to me and say, “Well, I’m going to the Fourth of July parade. REK: Crappy stages with bad wiring and bad promoters. But like Robert said, at first it was just us. Getting everybody and everything organized is the worst part of it. LL: That’s exactly what I was going to say. However, I will say this: Once you’re onstage and it’s working, it is effortless. So there is an amazing amount of effort that goes into it.
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I had to learn how to pressure people to do that, and that if you pressure them too hard, they’ll grab their stuff and leave-and then you’re playing solo again. I grew up playing the Broken Spoke in Austin, and I remember waking up band members from their hangovers to go play with me. REK: If you counted up all the hours that go into it, from writing songs, recording, sitting down with other musicians and making sure it sounds the way you want it to, making sure everybody’s not screwing around with their amps, or out drinking beer-there’s a lot of that. What does it take to get it all to work like that? So their version of storytelling, their take on what a song was supposed to be, was something that Robert and I actively pursued.ĭoes that apply to performing, too? You both put on very different kinds of shows, but they share a feeling of effortlessness. We learned how to play those Guy Clark songs from Guy’s first record, and we sought out Guy and Townes as we came up, because we admired them so much, and got to know them. Lyle Lovett: There’s a direct line from those guys to Robert and me. Do you see yourself carrying on that tradition? The two of you are now the standard-bearers in a long line of Texas singer-songwriters known for their storytelling-people like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. They talked about Texas storytelling, learning from their heroes, honky-tonk nights, and why their friendship has endured. We met with the two singer-songwriters on the outskirts of Austin, at the headquarters of Collings Guitars. Back then, they’d sit on the porch of the house Keen rented and trade songs, just as they’ll be doing on stages around the country beginning in October. When fellow Texans Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen go on tour together this fall, it’ll be the latest chapter in a friendship that began when they were students at Texas A&M University.
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