Robert Earl Keen has been playing the Texas singer/songwriter circuit for over three decades, and as a guy who often favors the acoustic side of the country and Americana music scenes, it's no kind of surprise that he's crossed paths with the bluegrass music community, and it certainly makes sense that he's a fan. What is a bit of a surprise is not that Keen has decided to cut a bluegrass album, but that the respected tunesmith has chosen to make it a collection of covers rather than writing a new set of songs.
"Happy Daze" was the second album by the Mk II line-up of Lindisfarne and was originally released in 1974. This is the first time that the album has been issued on CD and Market Square have lovingly repackaged it and included seven Alan Hull demos as bonus tracks, six of which are previously unreleased…