West Textures by Robert Earl Keen

West Textures came out on Sugar Hill in 1989, with the Texas songwriter credited as Robert Earl Keen, Jr. and Jim Rooney producing, and it's a spare, dusty set of folk and country songs that leaves plenty of room for the words and that dry, unhurried voice.

The one that outlived the rest is "The Road Goes On Forever", a rolling, rambling number that became one of Keen's signature songs and was later picked up by the country supergroup the Highwaymen. The album sits between The Live Album and A Bigger Piece of Sky in his catalog.

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