Robert Earl Keen at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Robert Earl Keen is a country music artist who has a penchant for mixing bluegrass, folk and rock into his music. He emerged in 1984 and released his debut album, No Kinda Dancer. With a career spanning almost four decades, the Houston-Texas native has dropped twenty highly-acclaimed studio albums. His fifth album, Picnic, released in 1997, served as his breakthrough record when it entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number 4 on the Heatseekers chart. The album was dedicated to influential singer-songwriter John Townes Van Zandt, who died in the same year as the album's release.

Another one of Keen’s noteworthy albums is his seventh studio release, Gravitational Forces. The 2001 effort became his first number 1 album, topping the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The album was also Keen’s first release to enter the Top Country Albums chart, placing at number 10. Gravitational Forces contains a Johnny Cash cover, “I Still Miss Someone.” Some of Keen’s fan favorites include “The Road Goes On Forever,” “Walking Distance,” “Feelin’ Good Again,” and “A Bigger Piece of Sky.”

Keen’s music efforts have earned him several accolades, including being inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016 and into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2019. Moreover, Keen made his alma mater proud and became a recipient of a Texas A&M University Distinguished Alumni Award.

Tickets to see Robert Earl Keen light up the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion are now available!