Corpus Christi Bay

Robert Earl Keen | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album Best

Product Details

• Original Release Date: November 7, 2006
• Label: KOCH Records
• Copyright: (C) 2007 AUDIUM ENTERTAINMENT LLC
• Duration: 3:58 minutes
• Genres: Country/Alt-Country & Americana, Country/Compilations, Country/Outlaw & Progressive Country, Folk/Compilations, Folk/Contemporary Folk, Pop/Singer-Songwriters
• ASIN: B00132TM94
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,977 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)
  • #7 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Country > Alt-Country & Americana
  • #11 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Country > Outlaw & Progressive Country
  • #14 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Country > Compilations

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5.0 out of 5 stars "That life, it is contagious, and it gets down in your blood", November 29, 2011

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This review is from: Corpus Christi Bay (MP3 Download)

Corpus Christi Bay may not be as well known as big a crowd pleaser as The Road Goes on Forever (a great song in its own right), but it's as pitch perfect as a song gets. It's as poetic as Byron, tells as good a story as any Americana song, and a deep streak of melancholy lurking beneath its surface. That subtle melancholy is nowhere more stark than in the line, after his brother visits him (still in Corpus Christi Bay): "He said he finally gave up drinking, then he ordered me a beer." Life for his brother has moved on, and he's still mired in the same place. What's worse, his brother doesn't contemplate him doing so. He's marked incorrigible. And is there a less hopeful line than, "if I could live my life all over, it wouldn't matter anyway, because I never could stay sober"?