I heard it -- uh, y'know, at a friend's house. Yeah. It was awesome. I hadn't heard of the "Rolling Stone" description of Robert Earl Keen as "the Grateful Dead for frat boys," but yeah, that pretty much nails the type of crowd you see at his shows. (His music, of course, is much more nuanced -- in places -- than that.)

I was a little sad that all the talk of REK's college days didn't contain a mention that his roommate was my secret husband Lyle Lovett, but that's cool. I guess.

I had no idea about the Keen-Lovett factoid -- happen to know whether that was blind luck or self-selection?

Adam, Check out "The Front Porch Song" (Lovett/Keen) on Robert's early album titled oddly enough "The Live Album". There's no telling what those two might have accomplished if Yoko, I mean Stacy, hadn't stepped in.

You know, I don't know how they came to be roommates -- that's a great question!

"This Old Porch" on Lyle's debut album is the same song that Hal mentions, essentially. It's interesting to see how each changed lyrics here and there, how they perform it, etc. And it's a blast to envision all the trouble those two probably got into as roommates!

I've got both discs and I never noticed they released the same song with two different names!