No. 2 Live Dinner
live album by Robert Earl Keen
No. 2 LIVE Dinner is an album of live music by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States on March 19, 1996. It was his last live album for Sugar Hill Records, a label he had been with since 1984. After that album's release, Robert Earl Keen left for Arista Records in 1997. The performances are from two different dates, the first fourteen tracks (11 songs, described as "Dinner" in the CD Liner notes) were recorded at the John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes, TX on August 12, 1995. Tracks fifteen through seventeen (2 songs, described as "Dessert") were recorded at Cactus Cafe Ballroom in Austin, TX on October 8 of the same year.
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