A Who's Who of young Texas/Americana artists and musicians gathered last winter at the annual MusicFest in Steamboat Springs, Colorado to honor a man who has blazed an important trail for them: indelible songwriter/singer/musician Robert Earl Keen. The result of that tribute concert is a live (yes, genuinely live) double CD set appropriately titled Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen.

Over the last two decades, Keen has earned a deep and abiding respect from his fellow musicians. He's truly a songwriter's songwriter who can move effortlessly from a poignant love ballad to a roof-raising sing-along. Because he's so successfully carried forward those rich traditions from earlier songwriters, while also putting his own distinctive stamp on the music, Keen has done more than any other single artist to inspire a whole new generation of Americana and Red Dirt singer-songwriters, including Cory Morrow, Bonnie Bishop, Cody Canada, Todd Snider, Randy Rogers, Reckless Kelly, and countless others. If anyone has earned the right to be called the "father" of Americana music, it's Robert Earl Keen.

With a great deal of respect and a healthy dose of humor and energy, each one of the young Texas and Americana artists adds his or her own interpretation of Keen's material to the mix.

From Reckless Kelly's rocking take on "Think It Over One Time" to Bonnie Bishop's sweet and soulful "Not a Drop of Rain," these younger artists demonstrate exactly how much Keen has influenced them musically. As an added bonus, Robert Earl Keen and his band also take the stage to perform a high-octane set of some of his most popular tunes ("Dreadful Selfish Crime," "Wild Wind," "For Love," "The Road Goes On Forever" and his new song "Goodnight Cleveland," for which this is the first recording.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Undone will benefit The Center for Texas Music History.