I love Robert Earl Keen, Jr. He writes great songs and performs the hell out of them. I saw him once, and two different times idiots jumped the stage. The roadies took care of them and Keen just ignored them and kept on singing. He's got a ton of great music, but I picked these two for Kriste to listen to.

This first song is pretty straightforward: it was co-written by Uncle Shel Silverstein. A sweet ballad

The second is a variant of the old folk song tradition of talking blues. Keen describes setting up for a show in a very different hall and comments on his own views about music.

This is Keen doing a digital story without pictures. But his lyrics paint pictures that make very clear what the setting is.