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  1. For Love - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  2. Mr. Wolf And Mamabear - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  3. What I Really Mean - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  4. The Great Hank - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  5. The Wild Ones - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  6. Long Chain - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  7. Broken End Of Love - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  8. The Dark Side Of The World - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  9. The Traveling Storm - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
  10. A Border Tragedy - Robert Earl KeenDownload & Buy
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Album Details: What I Really Mean

Release Date:
05/10/2005
Label:
Koch Records
UPC:
684038981021

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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.

- Mark Deming, All Music Guide



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