Picnic (album)

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Picnic
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 1997
GenreFolk, Country
Length44:10
LabelArista
ProducerJohn Keane
Robert Earl Keen chronology
No. 2 Live Dinner
(1996)
Picnic
(1997)
Walking Distance
(1998)
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Picnic is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States on April 29, 1997. It was his first album for Arista Records after leaving Sugar Hill Records.

Track listing[]

All tracks written by Robert Earl Keen, except where noted

  1. "Undone" – 3:47
  2. "Over the Waterfall" – 4:30
  3. "Levelland" (James McMurtry) – 5:11
  4. "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight" – 4:08
  5. "Oh Rosie" – 5:23
  6. "Runnin' with the Night" – 4:15
  7. "The Coming Home of the Son and Brother" (J. D. Hutchison) – 3:53
  8. "Shades of Gray" – 5:07
  9. "Fourth of July" (Dave Alvin) – 3:59
  10. "Then Came Lo Mein" – 3:57

Personnel[]

  • Nancy Blake – cello (track 10)
  • Rich Brotherton – electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 7), backing vocals (track 3), acoustic guitar (tracks: 1 to 5, 7)
  • John Keane – steel guitar (tracks 4, 5, 7), mandolin (track 1), keyboards (tracks 2, 10), electric guitar (tracks 1, 3, 9), bass (tracks 6, 10), backing vocals (track 9), acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 6, 8, 10)
  • Gurf Morlix – electric guitar (tracks 3, 5, 6, 9)
  • Joel Morris – drums (tracks 3, 6, 9)
  • Tim O'Brien – mandolin (tracks 2, 4, 8)
  • Mark Thomas Patterson – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
  • Dave Schools – bass guitar (track 9)
  • Margo Timmins – vocals (track 10), backing vocals (tracks 4, 7)
  • Bill Whitbeck – bass guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8), backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5)
  • Tim White – organ (track 9), keyboards (track 3), accordion (track 6)
  • Robert Earl Keen – vocals (tracks 1 to 10), acoustic guitar (tracks 1 to 10)


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