Although he began his career as a newspaper writer, Robert Earl Keen has been putting out records filled with classic folk-country for more than 20 years.

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Can everybody please give it up for Robert Earl Keen one more time? (Applause.) During the campaign, I was up here -- I was singing with some folk.

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