Blog: 30 Days Out

Robert Earl Keen might not be a household name in most parts of the country, but he is an icon down here in Texas. "Merry Christmas from the Family" is his take on a redneck Christmas. Keen describes the song this way: "Merry Christmas from the Family" describes the Christmas gathering of a fairly dysfunctional Texas family whose merrymaking, which includes drinking alcohol carving a turkey, watching a televised ball game and smoking cigarettes, seems to be punctuated with Christmas music and the need to run to convenience stores for additional supplies such as fake snow. [...]