Audio Cassette review:
Robert Earl Keen Jr. - Gravitational Forces

Robert Earl Keen Jr. - Gravitational Forces

Band: Robert Earl Keen Jr. Title: Gravitational Forces Rating: Release Date: 11 September, 2001 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame 2: Hello New Orleans 3: Wild Wind 4: Not a Drop of Rain 5: I Still Miss Someone 6: Fallin' Out 7: High Plains Jamboree 8: Walkin' Cane 9: Goin' Nowhere Blues 10: Snowin' on Raton 11: Gravitational Forces 12: Road Goes on Forever

Editoral Review The beautifully crafted Gravitational Forces, however, turns around stories of guys whose ropes have run out. Robert Earl Keen always delivers his quota of rambling songs. On his first album in more than three years, the singer-songwriter often backs down from the bravado of past blurts like "Whenever Kindness Fails. " Not that it's absent in the breakneck remake of his signature "The Road Goes On Forever" or even the cover of Joe Dolce's homebound "Hall of Fame. " Yet he dwells more on the troubled side of his drifting characters' lives: the wrong-side-of-the-law losers of "Wild Wind," the homeless loner of "Not a Drop of Rain. " Keen tweaks pavement-bound verities even further on the Dylanesque "Goin' Nowhere Blues" and the deadpan spoken-word title track, which takes out his frustration with a half-day sound check on the club's puzzling decor. If this debut for the Lost Highway label raises Keen's profile even further, the attention will be well deserved. --Rickey Wright .. You can see a complete list of all Robert Earl Keen Jr. discography, or go back to the Robert Earl Keen Jr. tabs