{"id":25909,"date":"2002-01-03T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2002-01-03T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25909"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:32","slug":"robert-earl-keen-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/01\/03\/robert-earl-keen-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Earl Keen performs concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/bobearlkeen185.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/bobearlkeen185.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"bobearlkeen185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Earl Keen, whose gritty musical tales of the down and out have  made him an alt-country favorite, performs at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, in the Clifton Daggett Gray  Athletic Building, 130 Central Ave.  Guitarist-singer Willy Porter opens this concert sponsored by the Bates  Activity Council. Tickets cost $12 and are available at Bull Moose Music  stores in Maine and New Hampshire.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Houston native Keen began performing in the early 1980s while still  at college (he roomed with Lyle Lovett). He won favor among alt-country  or &#8220;y&#8217;alternative&#8221; cultists through heavy touring and widespread  coverage of his songs by such artists as Nanci Griffith, Dar Williams,  Gillian Welch and the Highwaymen. Keen&#8217;s big breakthrough followed his  major-label debut, &#8220;Picnic&#8221; (Arista), which ruled the Americana charts  for three months in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Bates date is Keen&#8217;s only New England appearance on his current  tour, which supports &#8220;Gravitational Forces,&#8221; his debut on the Lost  Highway label and his ninth record overall. Here Keen extends his long  line of hard-luck story songs and also covers tunes by Johnny Cash and  Townes Van Zandt.<\/p>\n<p>Willy Porter is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who has opened for  artists as diverse as Jeff Beck, the Cranberries, Ricki Lee Jones and  Sting. A native of Wisconsin, Porter has been praised for his &#8220;darkly  complex&#8221; guitar work and the honesty of his songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the concert, please call 207-795-7496.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Earl Keen, whose gritty musical tales of the down and out have made him an alt-country favorite, performs in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building at Bates College at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18. Guitarist-singer Willy Porter opens this concert sponsored by the Bates Activity Council. Tickets cost $12 and are available at Bull Moose Music stores in Maine and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,11012],"tags":[6135,6889,7527,9087,9270],"class_list":["post-25909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-student-life","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-robert-earl-keen","tag-visual-arts","tag-willy-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91123,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions\/91123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}