Robert Earl Keen Celebrates 'Ready For Confetti' 15th Anniversary With Special Reissue
(IVPR) Fifteen years ago, Texas's perennial-albeit unofficial-poet laureate, Robert Earl Keen, released his pivotal Ready for Confetti album on Lost Highway Records. Keen's fifteenth LP, Confetti marked a return to the detailed songcraft and clean arrangements from early-career albums like Gringo Honeymoon and Picnic, and planted a few all-timers into the Robert Earl Keen Band live catalog.
Songs like the fan-favorite "I Gotta Go" and the scathing shuffle of "The Road Goes On And On" share Ready for Confetti's tracklist with a stellar cover of Todd Snider's "Play A Train Song" and a re-recording of 1993's "Paint The Town Beige." Ultimately, Ready For Confetti showed fans that Keen was still capable of the stunning lyricism and good-time tunes he'd made legions fall in love with earlier in his career.
Today, Keen, along with the recently-revived Lost Highway Records, released the 15th anniversary re-issue of Ready for Confetti. Like REK and Lost Highway's recent 25th anniversary re-issue of Keen's Gravitational Forces, this re-issued Ready for Confetti LP is pressed on a special-edition confetti colored vinyl and can be purchased from Lost Highway Records here, and note that a limited number of signed vinyl will be available at the merch table and at robertearlkeen.com.
In addition to today's release, Keen has recently added a slew of new dates for his Then and Now Tour celebrating these fifteen years of Ready for Confetti and twenty-five years of Gravitational Forces, and confirmed the daily events for his annual Homecoming Weekend at Floore's Country Store in Helotes, Texas. All tour dates and ticket information can be found at robertearlkeen.com/tour.
Robert Earl Keen's Then and Now Tour Dates:
August 21 - Alexandria, VA - The Birchmere^
August 22 - Alexandria, VA - The Birchmere^
August 23 - Alexandria, VA - The Birchmere^
September 5 - Helotes, TX - Floore's Country Store#
September 6 - Helotes, TX - Floore's Country Store#
September 7 - Helotes, TX - Floore's Country Store - Fan Appreciation Day#
October 8 - New Braunfels, TX - Gruene Hall
October 10 - Saint Jo, TX - Red River Station
November 20 - Fairhope, AL - Halstead Amphitheater
November 21 - Montgomery, AL - Montgomery Performing Arts Center
December 11 - Denver, CO - Grizzly Rose
^ solo acoustic show
# REK's Annual Homecoming Weekend
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