West Textures
by Robert Earl Keen
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Robert Earl Keen bestography
West Textures is ranked 2nd best out of 20 albums by Robert Earl Keen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Robert Earl Keen is A Bigger Piece Of Sky which is ranked number 22466 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 45.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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West Textures track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
West Textures rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 6 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 70 Music Albums of 1989 | 37/70 | 2 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 38/100 | 13 |
| 2023 | henrygreen0203 | Top 51 Music Albums of 1989 | 5/51 | 5 |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Texas Singer-Songwriters on Vinyl | 21/35 | - |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Decades of Texas Singer-Songwriters | 69/100 | - |
| 2020 |  samistake2ice | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 20/100 | 16 |
| 2016 | samistake2ice | Top 15 Music Albums of 1989 | 4/15 | 4 |
| 2015 | samistake2ice | 100 Favorite Country Albums | 51/100 | - |
| 1990 | OOR | Jaarlijst Oor 1990 | 21/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 40 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/04/2022 05:44 | Taosjohn | 850 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2021 04:22 | henrygreen0203 | 871 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2021 22:31 | Moondance | 20,714 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/03/2021 20:17 |  Martini | 756 | 95/100 |
| ! | 09/09/2017 14:29 |  NoisyBeast | 13,314 | 74/100 |
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West Textures is the second studio album by Texas folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. Keen was part of the community of singer-songwriters from Texas that were more folk as far as imaginative lyrics, but we're marketed as country musicians.
Keen's first album for the Philo label was very low budget. Keen teamed up with producer Jim Rooney for this record. Rooney had produced two dazzling acoustic records for Nanci Griffith, and had also produced albums for John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker and Townes van Zandt. He had a knack for capturing these folk artists with backing acoustic musicians, long before Americana music was established as a niche industry.
The result is a folk album that sounds like a bluegrass album. This is an excellent collection of folk songs. There is a nice trilogy of Western-Hispanic-tinged songs: Maria, Sonoras Death Row and Mariano that really makes this memorable. My personal highlights are the tender Leavin' Tennessee and Jennifer Johnson. The last element are the good-time songs: Road Goes on Forever, Five Pound Bass and It's The Little Things. These tracks offer nice counterpart to the moody tracks, but the comedy falls a little flat, at least on the latter two.
Overall, this is a really nice country-folk album and I highly recommend it.
A-Side: Road Goes On Forever
B-Side: Jennifer Johnson and Me
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